Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

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If you have a unique branch, it can always be pushed to the master repository:

    $ git push origin MyBranchName

If you've modified an existing branch, you may receive an error message as follows:

• remote: error: Refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
• remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository

In this case, you need to push your changes to a new branch on the remote site:

    $ git push origin master:NewBranchName

You'll also need to alert the package maintainer to merge this branch into the master:

    # On remote
    $ git merge NewBranchName

Retrieving the latest sources for the current branch. If there are multiple developers on a project, you'll need to synchronize with ...