Git Branch not recognized on staging server

Question

I have created a git branch from master at a certain commit that is a bit behind. I made some updates and tried to push to that specific branch.

Steps I did:

* git clone [url]
* git checkout -b [new-branch] [commit-hash]
* git add .  / . git commit -m "message"  /  git push origin [new-branch]

After push I get the following error:

remote:

remote: Create pull request for [new-branch]:

remote:   http://stash......[url]

remote:

When I try to checkout to my new branch of the staging server I get:

fatal: ambiguous argument 'origin/[new-branch]': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

I don't know how to proceed further.

German Mumma · Answer

Hi, Vlad

Check what is the output of following command.

* check what is the status of your branch you are on with

git status

Next I would check if the remote is set up correctly:

git remote -v

Then see how the branch you are looking for is displayed (if it is, that is):

git branch -a

If you see no remote branches pointing to origin/master then execute following command:

git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/master

This should set refs/remotes/origin/HEAD to point to the origin/master branch.

Hope this helps!

Vlad Vlad · Answer

Yes it is a different server. I think my branch is only local or something.

I also tried to create a new branch from a JIRA task, as a hotfix, and there it detected by [new-branch]. And i created a new branch hotfix/[newer-branch] from the [new-branch], directly from the platform.

This doesn't work either, still doesn't see my branch.

Lenin Raj · Answer

What do you mean by "staging server"? Is it a different server from the one you pushed to in the previous step?