[Tutor] Questions (and initial responses) on using version control: Why cannot I push my single (master) branch to origin without an error occurring?

[boB Stepp]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> wrote:
> On 2015-04-30 20:39, boB Stepp wrote:
>>
>> I created my remote repository on, say my C-drive, with "git init". I
>> then copied and pasted a file to that location and put it under
>> version control with "git add filename.py". Next I went to my E-drive,
>> which is where I intend to be my working directories. After setting up
>> a similar directory structure (/Projects/), I typed "git clone
>> C:/Projects/project_name" and the desired result appeared on E:
>> E:/Projects/project_name/filename.py. All seemed well with the world!
>>
>> Now I made some edits to filename.py in my working directory,
>> added/committed and then attempted to push to the remote repository
>> and got this:
>
>
> I would suggest the following work flow to set up two parallel repositories:
>
> cd <first repo directory>
> git init
> <do what ever>
> git add <files on which you did what ever>
> git commit
>
> cd <directory where you want the same repository>
> git clone <first repo directory>
> # the above command brings in a copy of all that was committed in the first
> repo.
>
> Once this is done, I believe your subsequent commits can be pushed without
> the errors.
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But this is what I did, and I got the pasted error. Is there some
difference between what you are saying and what I posted that I am not
picking up on?


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boB