Question

Starting from an existing code.google project, and having successfully pushed initial code.

I created a new branch on the local copy. I committed the changes for the branch and now I want to push the branch to code.google repo. I type this:

git push origin branch_name -v https://username:[e-mail]/p/project-name/ 

But I get this error

fatal: remote part of refspec is not a valid name in https://username:[e-mail]/p/project-name/

Answer 1

The syntax of the push command:

git push [ <options> ] <repository> [ <refspec> ]

In the simplest case, <options> is empty, <repository> is typically origin, and <refspec> is the name of your current branch:

git push origin branch_name

This assumes that you have created a remote named origin, either by cloning a remote repository or using the git remote add ... command. If you haven’t configured a remote, you can substitute the URL on the command line like this:

git push https://username:[e-mail]/p/project-name/ branch_name