$ git push Enumerating objects: 4, done. Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done. Delta compression using up to 12 threads Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 297 bytes | 297.00 KiB/s, done. Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/dev remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository remote: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent remote: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match remote: the work tree to HEAD. remote: remote: You can set the 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable remote: to 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing into remote: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you remote: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in some remote: other way. remote: remote: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, set remote: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'. To file:///d/test/repository/git1/.git/ ! [remote rejected] dev -> dev (branch is currently checked out) error: failed to push some refs to 'file:///d/test/repository/git1/.git/'