automatically create --set-upstream origin doing git push

Question

It's annoying I got prompt every time trying to push new branch. For instance, I do this

git checkout -b myBranch
git add . && git commit -m 'first commit'
git push

but I got this

git push --set-upstream origin myBranch

is there anyway to skip this?

Answer 1

You can configure Git with these settings:

git config --global push.default current
git config --global remote.pushDefault origin

and then you can simply use:

git push

to push the curent branch to a branch with the same name on the remote origin. This does not set the upstream configuration, but it does allow you to push without any other arguments, whether it’s the first time you are pushing a branch or not.

Answer 2

With the release of git 2.37 in June 2022, you can do so with push.autoSetupRemote

git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true