Suppose I have a tracking branch named 'abc' which tracks origin/master.
When I'm on 'abc' and do a git push, it pushes 'abc' to 'abc'.
How do I specify the remote push branch for it with just a 'git push'?
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A:
git branch --set-upstream abc origin/master
should be able to specify the remote branch.
Since Git1.7.0:
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git branch --set-upstream" can be used to update the (surprise!) upstream, i.e. where the branch is supposed topullandmergefrom (orrebase onto).
VonC
2010-08-30 10:30:51
And if your git's older, it's pretty easy to just edit `.git/config` and put in the branch and remote you want (you should have your master branch as an example to copy from, if needed, since it's set up automatically when you clone).
Jefromi
2010-08-30 12:45:49
@VonC: I tried as you said. But when I do "git push", Git still doesn't understand that it's the current branch that I want to push up to the remote. It still pushs every tracking branch for me.
Shawn
2010-09-02 01:53:39
@Shawn: that is normal: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html#OPTIONS. You need to do do `git push origin abc` otherwise you are using ':' which a special refspec used only for *matching* branch names.
VonC
2010-09-02 02:17:29