I want to store my local modifications to JBoss config in git. For this, I have set up the following structure:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jboss jboss 19 Jan 24 11:53 current -> jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b
drwxr-xr-x 11 jboss jboss 4096 Jan 24 12:13 jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b
-rw-r--r-- 1 jboss jboss 108211143 Jan 23 16:02 jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 6 jboss jboss 4096 Jan 24 11:36 local
local is the git repository which shall be the “origin”. The idea is that I want to be able to easily update my JBoss distribution once an update is available. I want to store all local modifications to the distributed JBoss package in git.
So, currently I do this:
jboss@tpl0:~/jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/jboss/jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b/.git/
jboss@tpl0:~/jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b$ git remote add origin ../local/
jboss@tpl0:~/jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b$ git pull origin master
From ../local
* branch master -> FETCH_HEAD
So far so good, all my local modifications are there where I want them.
However, once I have local modifications and want to bush them back to the local repository, I get an error:
jboss@tpl0:~/jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b$ vim standalone/configuration/standalone.xml
jboss@tpl0:~/jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b$ git commit -a -m "renamed database to project2_core, to distinguish from other projects"
[master 3e54f34] renamed database to project2_core, to distinguish from other projects
Committer: jboss <jboss@tpl0.(none)>
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
jboss@tpl0:~/jboss-as-7.1.0.CR1b$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 9, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 447 bytes, done.
Total 5 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), 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 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 ../local/
! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to '../local/'
What can I do about this? Any help is greatly appreciated!
EDIT
Here’s what I did, which solved the problem:
cd ~/current
git init
vim .gitignore # set up a basic .gitignore file
git add .gitignore
git commit -a -m "initial commit"
cd ~/local
git clone ~/current
git branch -m master current # rename master branch to 'current'
git branch repo
git checkout repo
Now, the branch current in directory ~/local is always up-to-date, but it’s not cheked out, so that i can push into it.
The master branch at remote site is checked out. If you have access to remote repository, checkout any other branch and then push from your repository.