How git push current branch to another remote/origin?

Question

My .git/config:

[remote "origin"]     url = [email protected]:nfpyfzyf/test.git     fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"]     remote = origin     merge = refs/heads/master 

My local branches:

                     HEAD                      |                  F---G  feature**current branch                 /        C---D---E develop       /            A---B  master 

I'm now in feature branch, and want to push to remote. What is the current command, is itgit push origin feature? What will happen if I do git push?

Answer 1

To push a specific branch, run git push <remote> <branch>. In your case, your only defined remote is origin, and you want to push your feature branch, so that makes

$ git push origin feature

The “Examples” section of the git push documentation describes what happens if you run git push with no other arguments.

git push

Works like git push <remote>, where is the current branch’s remote (or origin, if no remote is configured for the current branch).

Given the configuration in your question, your feature branch does not have a remote configured, so the above invocation is equivalent to the next example.

git push origin

Without additional configuration, works like git push origin : …

Following the daisy chain, we see that this is equivalent to

git push origin :

Push “matching” branches to origin. See in the OPTIONS section above for a description of "matching" branches.

The rules for matching branches are

The special refspec : (or +: to allow non-fast-forward updates) directs git to push “matching” branches: for every branch that exists on the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file—see below) and no push.default configuration variable is set.

In your case, the only matching branch is master, so git push will push that branch and exit.