Question

Git newbie here.

created a new folder:

mkdir hello_master
cd hello_master
touch test.txt
git init
git add test.txt
git commit test.txt

then cloned the repository

    git clone hello_master hello_local
    # made some changes to test.txt and committed it

how do I push it to hello_master? if I do a git push, it is complaining saying I can’t push to hello_master. But if I go to hello_master, I can pull and get all changes from hello_local.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Nothing. You just can’t push to a non-bare repository. Because git wouldn’t know what to do with the checked-out files.