The default action of git push and git push origin has changed since git version 1.7.11: Before 1.7.11, git push by default pushes all branches that also exist remotely with the same name. Since 1.7.11, git push by default pushes the current branch to a remote branch with the same name. Before and after version … Read more
When you do the initial push add the -u parameter: git push -u origin my_branch:remote_branch Subsequent pushes will go where you want. EDIT: As per the comment, that only sets up pull. git branch –set-upstream should do it.
Submodules are always checked out in a detached HEAD mode. That is because a submodule will checkout the SHA1 stored in the special entry in the index of the parent repo. Plus, if you want a submodule to follow the branch you have registered in the .gitmodules, you need: git submodule update –init –remote The … Read more
As it has already been mentioned in che’s answer about adding the remote part, which I believe you are still missing. Regarding your edit for adding remote on your local USB drive. First of all you must have a ‘bare repository’ if you want your repository to be a shared repository i.e. to be able … Read more
Executive summary: what you want to achieve is possible, but first you must invent remote tags. You do this with a series of refspecs, one for each remote. The rest of this is about what these are, how they work, and so on. Your question asks about checking out a “remote tag”, but Git does … Read more
git push can push all branches or a single one dependent on this configuration: Push all branches git config –global push.default matching It will push all the branches to the remote branch and would merge them. If you don’t want to push all branches, you can push the current branch if you fully specify its … Read more
This is the command that you need to execute on the mirror: git remote update
Here’s the long answer. Remotes: If you’re using Git collaboratively, you’ll probably need to sync your commits with other machines or locations. Each machine or location is called a remote, in Git’s terminology, and each one may have one or more branches. Most often, you’ll just have one, named origin. To list all the remotes, … Read more
You are getting this error because “origin” is not available. “origin” is a convention not part of the command. “origin” is the local name of the remote repository. For example you could also write: git remote add myorigin [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git git remote add testtest [email protected]:myname/oldrep.git See the manual: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-remote.html To remove a remote repository you enter: … Read more
Instead of removing and re-adding, you can do this: git remote set-url origin git://new.url.here See this question: How to change the URI (URL) for a remote Git repository? To remove remote use this: git remote remove origin