Jim Marks - Sun Microsystems <James.Marks at Sun.COM> writes: > Hi, > > In order to push a change to the ON gate, must my clone be in sync with the > for the entire repo I am pushing to?
Yes. > Since 'push' doesn't take pathname args (or have a Codemgs_ws/args file) it > looks like the designer's intention was to require synchronization. That > seems like overkill when putting back one file to a 5000 file repo. > > I tried a push when my repo hadn't been sync'd in a couple days and > I got the message: > > abort: push creates new remote heads! > > The message also mentions using "push -f". I assume that either it > doesn't work, or we aren't supposed to used it? You must not use it. -- Rich