‘fatal: No destination configured to push to’ error when I do a 'git push'

Question

I try to checkout a remote branch.

And then make a commit and then push.

I get fatal: No destination configured to push to error when I do a 'git push'.

Here is the sequence of commands I use:

$ git checkout remote/test-1.6
$ git checkout -b test-1.6
$ git commit -a -m "commit message"
$ git push
fatal: No destination configured to push to.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You probably already have a remote for your repository, but your new branch hasn't been configured to use it. This should work:

git push --set-upstream remote test-1.6

Having done that once, there is now a tracking branch in place and you can simply use "git push" in future -- assuming you've configured upstream push of the current branch as the default, like so:

git config --global push.default tracking

Or (preferred) as of git 1.7.4:

git config --global push.default upstream