Scenario:
You made a git repo on workstation 1, committed your changes, then from workstation 2 made a git init/pull. More changes, more commit… and its time to push all that mess back to workstation 1 ( the original )
$git push workstation1.tld
Counting objects: 32, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (22/22), done. Writing objects: 100% (24/24), 13.63 KiB, done. Total 24 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match remote: error: the work tree to HEAD. remote: error: remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some remote: error: other way. remote: error: remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'. To rocket.x.TLD.com:~/code/pydbgp ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out) error: failed to push some refs to 'rocket.x.lijit.com:~/code/pydbgp'
What the hell?
Stack overflow to the rescue with this Answer at stackoverflow
So basically… on workstation 1 do
Workstation1$git branch BeforeThePushBranch Workstation1$git checkout BeforeThePushBranch Workstation2$git push workstation1 Workstation1$git checkout master
Bam, back working again