On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:28:39AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
>>> I'm not understanding that, either. You not only created localmaster,
>>> but you deleted master. Did you maybe do a "git branch -m"?
>>
>> in the public repo I had never created a 'master' branch. I had just done
>> a clone, setup git daemon, and pushed to it.
>
> Did you mean "init" here instead of clone? The clone should have created
> at least one branch (generally master, but depending on the current
> branch of the cloned repo).

no, it was definantly a clone, and it did not create a master branch (at 
least not one that showed up with git branch -a)

David Lang

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>> at some point several days later I found that my push didn't work and that
>> I wasn't on any branch in the public repo. in reading the man page for git
>> branch I saw the --track option, so I created the localmaster branch to
>> try and get things working.
>
> Ah, ok. That makes sense. The right fix was to just manually specify the
> refspec the first time ("git push public master") after which you could
> just do "git push public" if you wanted.
>
> -Peff
>
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