I want to have a git repository accessed via ssh. Just for me, no plans to give anyone else access.

Below is the transcript of what I did, how do I solve the problem at the end of git refusing to update a checked out branch?

rjc@linux:/tmp$ mkdir orig

rjc@linux:/tmp$ cd orig

rjc@linux:/tmp/orig$ git init

Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/orig/.git/

rjc@linux:/tmp/orig$ ls -al > file

rjc@linux:/tmp/orig$ git add file

rjc@linux:/tmp/orig$ git commit file

[...]

1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

create mode 100644 file

rjc@linux:/tmp/orig$ cd ..

rjc@linux:/tmp$ mkdir copy

rjc@linux:/tmp$ cd copy

rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ git init

Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/copy/.git/

rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ git pull localhost:/tmp/orig

remote: Counting objects: 3, done.

[...]

From localhost:/tmp/orig

* branch HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD

rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ git push localhost:/tmp/orig

fatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch.

To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

git push --set-upstream localhost:/tmp/orig master

rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ git push --set-upstream localhost:/tmp/orig master
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'localhost:/tmp/orig
'.
Everything up-to-date
rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ ls -al > file2
rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ git add file2
rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ git commit file2
[master 3825986] s
Committer: Russell Coker <rjc@aaa.coker.com.au>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly. Run the
following command and follow the instructions in your editor to edit
your configuration file:

   git config --global --edit

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

   git commit --amend --reset-author

1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 file2
rjc@linux:/tmp/copy$ git push
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 369 bytes | 369.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
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: 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 localhost:/tmp/orig
! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to 'localhost:/tmp/orig'

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