git error when trying to push to remote branch

Question

I've cloned repository A's master branch from git and created my own branch called Li. I've made some changes a while ago and pushed the contents of local Li to remote Li.

Now I've pulled some updates from remote master to my local master branch and from the local master branch to the local Li, and I'm trying to push the updates from local Li to remote Li. However, when I try to run:

git checkout Li
git push origin Li

I get the following error:

error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:anodejs/system.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
hint: its remote counterpart. Merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull')
hint: before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

Note that my local master branch is updated (I invoked git pull origin master) and merged into the local Li branch. I did, however, add local Li a new file, so local Li is not identical to local master (but this shouldn't matter, right?)

Thanks, Li

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11935043/git-error-when-trying-to-push-to-remote-branch

Answer 1

Updates were rejected because a pushed branch tip is behind its remote.

git config --global push.default current

Try the command above to set the current branch as default and

git push