erica push fails with bad args

I followed the git hub intro. I did not do a local push and have no local couchdb. I skipped the local push and deployed to the remote couch, specifying the admin username/password in the url. It created the database, but pushed nothing else. It threw this error:

bash-3.2$ erica push http://xxxx:xxx@pg-rel01.sv.zup.com:5984/testdb
==> myapp (push)
ERROR: push failed while processing /Users/bmcquee/git/myapp: {'EXIT',{badarg,[{couchbeam,save_doc,4,
[{file,"src/couchbeam.erl"},{line,587}]},
{erica_push,do_push,4,
[{file,"src/erica_push.erl"},{line,91}]},
{erica_push,push2,3,[{file,"src/erica_push.erl"},{line,53}]},
{erica_push,push1,3,[{file,"src/erica_push.erl"},{line,40}]},
{erica_core,run_modules,4,
[{file,"src/erica_core.erl"},{line,98}]},
{erica_core,execute,4,
[{file,"src/erica_core.erl"},{line,68}]},
{erica,main,1,[{file,"src/erica.erl"},{line,12}]},
{escript,run,2,[{file,"escript.erl"},{line,747}]}]}}

Reproduce the documented erica push command against a remote CouchDB URL, then inspect src/erica_push.erl at lines 40, 53, 91 and couchbeam's src/couchbeam.erl at line 587. Determine why the remote push reaches the badarg failure without a local CouchDB; done means the reported deployment creates the database and pushes the app contents successfully.

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