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Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Using the same branch names in different repositories

Hi there,

So I have a growing list of repos now on GitHub and I'm using Treehouse projects to do this. When I'm following a course in Git I like to use the different sections of courses as separate branches. s1, s2, s3 etc.

I was trying to checkout to the next section when I got this...

To https://github.com/jg-digital-media/time_tracker.git
 ! [rejected]        s1 -> s1 (fetch first)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/jg-digital-media/time_tracker.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do
hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing
hint: to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes
hint: (e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

And this is after I made sure that all the files were actually ready for committing. I'm now 2 commits ahead of my repo.

Does this mean I can't have 2 branches of the name even if they're in separate Repos? I'm confused, Thanks :)

Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

It looks like I was able to solve it by doing a simple git pull.

commit 6ae...
Merge: e69f5e8 8006483
Author: author
Date:   Tue Jan 24 17:10:53 2017 +0000

    Merge branch 's1' of https://github.com/path into s1

A new commit now appears in my log

Merge: e69f5e8 8006483
Author: author
Date:   Tue Jan 24 17:10:53 2017 +0000

    Merge branch 's1' of https://github.com/path into s1

I'd be interested in input as to what's happening though :)