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Unable to push to repository

Annalisa Spence1

I'm new to Sourcetree, so bear with me. I set up a repository on my desktop computer in the office for my department to use to share files. The repository is located here: //ANNALISA_DESKTO/Users/Box Works/Documents/Electrical Department

I have cloned the repository on my laptop and a co-workers laptop. My clone is located here: C:\Users\boxworks\Documents\Electrical Department

I can make changes to the repository on my desktop and pull them onto my laptop, but I cannot make changes on my laptop and push to the repository. I get an error:

"git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false push -v --tags origin master:master Pushing to //ANNALISA_DESKTO/Users/Box Works/Documents/Electrical Department

remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master [K

remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository [K

remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent [K

remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match [K

remote: error: the work tree to HEAD. [K

remote: error: [K

remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to [K

remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into [K

remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you [K

remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some [K

remote: error: other way. [K

remote: error: [K

remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set [K

remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'. [K To //ANNALISA_DESKTO/Users/Box Works/Documents/Electrical Department ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out) error: failed to push some refs to '//ANNALISA_DESKTO/Users/Box Works/Documents/Electrical Department' "

So I'm gathering that I'm supposed to be operating on my desktop from a clone instead of the actual repository? I'm not sure if I'm on the right page here. Can anyone offer some insight?

Thanks. smile

Accepted answers

gustavo_refosco

Hi Annalisa,

This error is showing up because you didn't create the original repo as a bare repository, thus it's "protected" in a way you can't just push to it.

You can do as the error message says and set receive.denyCurrentBranch in the server side, where this repository is originally located. You can do this by navigating to the repository in the original location and running:

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore

For reference, I took this from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3221859/cannot-push-into-git-repository

Regards,

Gustavo Refosco

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gustavo_refosco

Hi Annalisa,

This error is showing up because you didn't create the original repo as a bare repository, thus it's "protected" in a way you can't just push to it.

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore

For reference, I took this from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3221859/cannot-push-into-git-repository

Regards,

Gustavo Refosco

Annalisa Spence1

Hi Gustavo. Thank you for the reply. Do I run this in a command line prompt? I'm unsure where to run this (I am using windows). Thanks!

gustavo_refosco

Hi Annalisa, Exactly, on the server from which the original repository is coming from you need to navigate to the repository and execute the command - I'm assuming you will be able to execute git commands in the command line. Regards, Gustavo Refosco

Seth

You also want to be careful about using the copy of the repository that is on your own computer to make changes. Git is not prepared for you to be working on a branch that others are pushing changes to.