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It looks like both accomplish the same task to me.
Are there cases in which they are different?
What is the difference between:git push origin HEADgit push origin [current-branch-name]
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Git Push Origin pushes all the branches to the main branch. Git Push Origin Master pushes your master branch to the origin. Behavior could be changed via git config.
HEAD is a reference to the last commit in the currently checked out branch. The commit with HEAD->master is what the local master branch is pointing to. origin/master refers to the remote master branch. Once you push the commit to the remote must branch, Git will indicate that origin/master has the commit.
Here, branch_name is a local branch, whereas origin/branch_name is a remote-tracking branch; it reflects the state of the corresponding branch that lives in origin .
To push the branch or you can say to push the changes in the branch to the Github repo you have to run this command “git push origin <the branch name>” in our case the branch name is “main”. After pushing the changes the repo will look like and this is how you can push a branch to a remotely hosted GitHub repository.
They mean exactly the same, since HEAD points to the tip of the current branch. See this answer for reference.
The only case in which this would not give the same result is when you are in detached HEAD state; but in that case, what is your definition of [current-branch-name]?
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