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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Pushing and Pulling

Posted by Unsubscribed User
Unsubscribed User
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Git PUSH Error - Help needed to resolve.

Hi,

i saw similar error faced by many people while pushing the changes to the remote repository. I tried it out but did not work.

Things which i did :

  1. Cloned the repository ~/my_clone_repo from remote repository ~/my_new_repo/
  2. Issued the command "git add" for the remote repository ~/my_new_repo for the connection.
  3. Performed changes in ~/my_clone_repo master branch.
  4. issued the command $ git push origin master and received the below error

Also in the tutorial, they performed the changes in the cloned repository by creating a branch. I did not create a branch here and edited the master directly. 

Aisswarya@Aishu MINGW64 ~/my_clone_repo (master)
$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 393 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository
remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsist
ent
remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to matc
h
remote: error: the work tree to HEAD.
remote: error:
remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to

remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into

remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you
remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some

remote: error: other way.
remote: error:
remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set

remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'.
To C:/Users/Aisswarya/my_new_repo
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to 'C:/Users/Aisswarya/my_new_repo'

1 Answer

Polina Zapreyeva
Polina Zapreyeva
1,503 Points
Polina Zapreyeva
Polina Zapreyeva
1,503 Points

I found a way to solve this issue. I went to cloned repository and run: git config --bool core.bare true

After that I went back to origin repository and pushed to cloned repository and it worked.