How to push to a non Samba Team member branch on gitlab ?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 01:22:02PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>I'm working with a new contributor here:
>
>https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/2741
>
>and want to push a modified version of their patch
>that corrects some things to help them work with
>us here on the Team. Pushing to their branch
>helps them see what I corrected so is a very
>desirable thing to do.
>
>The gitlab page above shows their branch name as:
>
>vporpo/samba:master
...
>git push gitlab +HEAD:vporpo/samba:master
>
>fails, as does:
>
>git push gitlab +HEAD:vporpo:master

git push gitlab +HEAD:vporpo/master

pushes, but not to MR 2741, so isn't
desirable :-(.

>I can't see any logic or patterns in this, or am I just
>missing something about git (again).
>
>Jeremy.