cannot push into git repository

Question

This is what I have done so far and I will say this procedure worked on Ubuntu 9.10 which perhaps had a different version of git.

server: mkdir ~/git

local: scp -r /../project [email protected]:~/git/
server: cd git
        cd project
        git init 
        git add .
        git commit -a -m "initial"

local: git clone [email protected]:/../git/project /home/name/project
   cd project
   capify .  (from the ruby gem capistrano)
   git add .
   git commit -a -m "capified"
   git push

When I try to push this out I get this error message:

   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 ...
   ! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
   error: failed to push some refs to

Answer 1

At server side, do this:

git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore

Then you can push at local.