[pony-build] Pushing a branch

[C. Titus Brown]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:30:38PM -0600, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Jack Carlson wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this is a rather simple question, but just wondering how do I 
>> go about pushing changes in a particular new branch up to my remote 
>> repository (github)?  Right now if I switch to my new branch, make 
>> changes/commit them, then attempt to git push the changes, I just get 
>> the message "Everything up-to-date".  Is there anything special I have 
>> to do in order to let github know that I have a new branch going?
>
> Try 'git push origin <branchname>' - assuming you want to push the new  
> branch name to github.

right -- to amplify on Augie's response, a more complete push spec is

    git push <repository> <local branch>:<remote branch>

To create a new branch on github, just push to it; if it already exists
and isn't an ancestor of the branch you're pushing, git will complain.

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu