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Christian Mikkelsen
Christian Mikkelsen

Reputation: 1701

Git push confusion

I have branch named X which I want to push to a remote master branch.

But when I execute:

git fetch remote_name
git checkout -B branchX remote_name/master
...
Add a commit
...
git push remote_name master

I get an error saying:

Updates were rejected because a pushed branch tip is behind its remote
counterpart. Check out this branch and integrate the remote changes...

If i check my branchX unique commit value, then I can see that the checkout was correct and there have been added a new commit, so for sure i am a head of remote_name master. And the remote master has NOT received any new commits in the meantime.

I normally use this procedure other places only difference here is that the branch names are not identical. What am i doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (2)

Justin ᚅᚔᚈᚄᚒᚔ
Justin ᚅᚔᚈᚄᚒᚔ

Reputation: 15369

You are trying to push your local repo's master to your remote's master. Your push command effectively expands to this:

git push remote_name refs/heads/master:refs/heads/remote_name/master

Obviously, that's not what you're trying to do. You need to explicitly specify which branches go where:

git push remote_name branchX:master

Upvotes: 3

sje397
sje397

Reputation: 41822

Try:

git push remote_name branchX:master

Upvotes: 1

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