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Asked: 2026-05-20T08:28:10+00:00

I am trying to understand how git works. So I initialized an empty repo

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I am trying to understand how git works. So I initialized an empty repo and added a file to it as following.

cd /home/adnan/workspace
mkdir git-test
cd git-test
git init
touch README
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"

Now I cloned it this repo using the following sequence of commands

cd /home/adnan/Desktop
git clone /home/adnan/workspace/git-test

after that I made changes to README file, committed them and pushed them to the first repo using following commands

cd /home/adnan/Desktop/git-test
vi README
git commit -a -m "second commit"
git push

Now running git log in both repos shows same thing i.e

commit
cdf192f7e26e734c7a56cc830ade2e2d13c6fb0d
Author: Adnan Waheed
Date:
Tue Mar 1 14:05:12 2011 +0500

second commit

commit
f8b75838e728e46cae949f66ff86d29c0864d976
Author: Adnan Waheed
Date:
Tue Mar 1 14:03:23 2011 +0500

initial commit

but I cant figureout how to get the changes in the original repo i.e /home/adnan/workspace/git-test. If I try to do git checkout, I get this message:

M   README

How do I get the changes that I made in the cloned repo and pushed?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Did you see an error message when you did git push? Something like this (assuming git > 1.7.0)?

    $ git push
Counting objects: 5, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 246 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
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 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 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 /home/pfarmer/git-test/git-test
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to '/home/pfarmer/git-test/git-test'

    Basically by default you can’t push to a non-bare repository. But what you can do is a git pull, so try:

    cd /home/adnan/workspace/git-test
git pull /home/adnan/Desktop/git-test

    and you should see something like:

    $ git pull ../git-test2/
From ../git-test2
 * branch            HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating 161aeea..c66b221
Fast-forward
 README |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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