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Miha Šušteršič
6,932 PointsBummer! Since we're pushing a new branch, you have to specify what branch to push.
Hey, I'm doing an exercise where you have to push to a remote repository. The first step is to add a remote with a specific url provided (I passed the task), and the second task was to push to that repo.
Upon entering: git push <git repo url> <branch name> I got the error in the topic of this message. I'm sorry but I passed the exercise and can't go back to check on it now. The solution was to use origin in place of the repo url. I still have no idea why it didn't work with the actual url.
Can't really figure out what I'm doing wrong, both the remote url and branch name are specified, and the documentation I found here: https://help.github.com/articles/pushing-to-a-remote/ says that's all that's needed.
What am I missing?
2 Answers
Hayes McCardell II
643 PointsThe question was: Now that you've cloned that repository, let's say you've done some work on a branch named "awesome_stuff." What command would you run to push that branch up to your remote?
the answer is
git push origin awesome_stuff
origin is the the remote repository, it takes care of the http: blah blah blah, and the awesome_stuff is whatever branch you're currently checked out on.
Hayes McCardell II
643 PointsWhat command are you entering? Which exercise?
Miha Šušteršič
6,932 Pointssry, thought my code would get added. Edited main post from memory, since I can't figure out how to delete it (passed the exercise, answer in the post).