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How can I push a branch to a different repo with a new name for the branch.

For instance I have a branch feature1 on repo abc and I'd like to push to repo xyz and make it the master branch.

I tried using Renaming remote git branch but then after doing a git clone on the new repo I got the error message

git Warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout

Is there a way to specify in the push what I want the destination branch name to be?

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Daniel Powell Avatar asked Oct 01 '13 00:10

Daniel Powell


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I think this should work:

git push xyz feature1:master

If master already exists, you can clobber it with -f/--force, or +:

git push -f xyz  feature1:master
git push    xyz +feature1:master

From the man page (in the examples section at the end):

   git push origin +dev:master
       Update the origin repositorys master branch with the dev branch,
       allowing non-fast-forward updates. [...]
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13ren Avatar answered Sep 23 '22 16:09

13ren