Comments on: Git failed to push some refs – the multiple branch variant http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:06:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Seth Milliken http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/#comment-653 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:42:55 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=235#comment-653 For whatever reason, by default git push pushes to all branches on the remote. To set this to the default that you’re expecting (and that really seems the only sane and reasonable default to me, but I digress), you can use git config remote.origin.push HEAD. But meanwhile, since you may wind up using git from other machines and forget that the default behavior is broken, you should probably always just specify the remote and branch explicitly.

So, using your example here, you would use:

git push origin fetch-flow

The problem with this is that if you mistype your branch, you could wind up creating a new branch on the remote with the typo, e.g. something like fletch-flow. So that brings us to what is likely the best git push habit to get into:

git push origin HEAD

This will push only the current branch to a branch of the same name on the remote.

Hope this helps. This is all in the git push docs, but it really isn’t very clearly or prominently presented.

]]> By: ljohnston http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/#comment-628 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:16:43 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=235#comment-628 Interesting. Thanks for the update. Yes, that is a confusing error…

]]> By: kkrugler http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/#comment-626 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:20:21 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=235#comment-626 Hi Lance,

I’ve revised the post above to be more accurate – your push works, you just get a confusing error about the other branches that git tries to auto-push.

– Ken

]]> By: ljohnston http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/#comment-625 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:03:33 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=235#comment-625 Thanks for the tip. Helped me get past this. However… really? This is the way git works? I work in a shop with several branches. Every time I want to push I’ve really got to checkout each branch that’s ahead of my repo and pull each one individually?

]]> By: BillyJin http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/#comment-618 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:27:48 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=235#comment-618 Thank you for your artcle

]]> By: Tosha http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/#comment-543 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:35:18 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=235#comment-543 Hey, thank you, that really helped, had some branches too, with the same problem on 2 branches. Fixed by your guide. Thanks once again!

]]> By: danone http://ken-blog.krugler.org/2010/02/25/git-failed-to-push-some-refs-the-multiple-branch-variant/#comment-530 Tue, 18 May 2010 15:26:35 +0000 http://ken-blog.krugler.org/?p=235#comment-530 Great! thanks.

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