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

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