[jboss-as7-dev] Help with git push ssh:...

So I'm trying to use the "Pushing changes to a public repository" proceedure from the git book, but run into the following error. Note that I did not first export the repository as a bare one as described earlier as I missed that. I just scpd the entire repo/workspace over to this box, did the JBAS-9151 work, and wanted to push that out to the copy. [191](ironmaiden:jboss-as) > git push root@ec2-174-129-102-73.compute-1.amazonaws.com:jboss-as master Counting objects: 692, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (191/191), done. Writing objects: 100% (537/537), 91.39 KiB, done. Total 537 (delta 205), reused 476 (delta 174) 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 t remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing int 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 som remote: error: other way. remote: error: remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, se remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'. To root@ec2-174-129-102-73.compute-1.amazonaws.com:jboss-as ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out) error: failed to push some refs to 'root@ec2-174-129-102-73.compute-1.amazonaws.com:jboss-as' The status of the remote repo is: [root@ip-10-78-94-50 jboss-as]# git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1715 commits. # nothing to commit (working directory clean) [root@ip-10-78-94-50 jboss-as]# I'll go through and re-export the local repo as a bare one and see if that works, but would setting receive.denyCurrentBranch=ignore or warn allow me to just update the remote repo for local use only? I'll never push or pull anything from it.