Need some remedial git help

[Sandra McCann]

Hi folks -

I’m trying to follow these direction
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/fedorapeople.org#Pushing_to_...
so that I have a personal branch to work on the virt getting started guide,
that is backed up to fedorapeople.  Somehow I’m failing but I don’t know
where.

This is what I tried :


   1.

   git clone --bare
   https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/virtualization-getting-started-gui...
   virtualization-getting-started-guide.git
   2.

   cd virtualization-getting-started-guide.git
   3.

   git branch smccann_virtmanager
   4.

   git checkout smccann_virtmanager

This gives me the following error: fatal: this operation must be run in a
work tree.

Looking that up, it seems I shouldn’t have cloned as --bare.

So I try again….w/o the bare…


   1.

   git clone
   https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/virtualization-getting-started-gui...
   virtualization-getting-started-guide.git
   2.

   cd virtualization-getting-started-guide.git
   3.

   git branch smccann_virtmanager
   4.

   git checkout smccann_virtmanager


this looks better…

   1.

   touch git-daemon-export-ok (so it’s visible on cgit)


 scp it up to fedorapeople:

   1.

   scp -r virtualization-getting-started-guide.git/
   mccann2(a)fedorapeople.org:
   public_git/virtualization-getting-started-guide.git


So far so good. Let’s make a minor edit, add and commit…

   1.

   (edit Book_Info.xml and build to ensure it works)
   2.

   git add en-US/Book_Info.xml
   3.

   git commit -m ‘first commit. Fix Book_Info.xml so it will build’


Now try to push that to fedorapeople:

   1.

   git remote add fedorapeople mccann2(a)fedorapeople.org
   :public_git/virtualization-getting-started-guide.git
   2.

   git push --mirror fedorapeople

This gets me the following batch of errors:

git push --mirror fedorapeople

Counting objects: 4, done.

Delta compression using up to 2 threads.

Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.

Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 394 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.

Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)

remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch:
refs/heads/smccann_virtmanager

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
inconsistent

remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to
match

remote: error: the work tree to HEAD.

remote: error:

remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration
variable t

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

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
som

remote: error: other way.

remote: error:

remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default
behaviour, se

remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to
'refuse'.

To mccann2(a)fedorapeople.org:
public_git/virtualization-getting-started-guide.git

! [remote rejected] smccann_virtmanager -> smccann_virtmanager (branch is
currently checked out)

error: failed to push some refs to &#39;mccann2(a)fedorapeople.org:
public_git/virtualization-getting-started-guide.git'

So now I’m lost in some weird catch-22 where --bare is needed for one set
of commands, but won’t work for the other.  I’m guessing I’m missing
something obvious here… Any clues what that is?

Thanks,
Sandra