Programmatically get remote used for git push

Question

How can I obtain the remote used when issuing git push?

I want to be able to use this in a script, or in git alises.

Related: Default remote for git fetch

Answer 1

The answer is not as simple as for fetching, because there is a list of fallbacks which need to be considered:

• branch.<name>.pushRemote
• remote.pushDefault
• branch.<name>.remote
• origin

These aliases take into account all of the above:

branch-name = "symbolic-ref --short HEAD"  # https://stackoverflow.com/a/19585361/5353461
branch-remote-fetch = !"branch=$(git branch-name \"$1\") && git config branch.\"$branch\".remote || echo origin #"
branch-remote-push  = !"branch=$(git branch-name \"$1\") && git config branch.\"$branch\".pushRemote || git config remote.pushDefault || git branch-remote-fetch #"

And, as a bonus, for the URL:

branch-url-push = !"remote=$(git branch-remote-push  \"$1\") && git remote get-url --push \"$remote\" #"  # cognizant of pushInsteadOf

Answer 2

Depending on whether you want the remote's name or its URL, also

git push --dry-run --porcelain --verbose

and looking at the URL after "To " in the first line might do.