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Reputation: 135

Push to newly created branch in git

I am working on a branch, 'development'. On Github, I created a new branch called 'Temporary'. I want to push my current code to branch temporary.

In my workspace doing

git branch

gives * development master

On trying,

git push origin temporary

I get: src refspec temporary does not match any

The git show-ref doesn't show the branch either

What can I do to push to the new branch temporary?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2961

Answers (2)

Naman Sogani
Naman Sogani

Reputation: 959

You should first create a branch locally and checkout to that new branch

git checkout -b temporary

Make all changes, commit your code and then do this

git push origin temporary

Upvotes: 0

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 522646

You seem to be confused about Git's workflow. Typically, there are two possible scenarios here. The first is that you pull the temporary branch on GitHub to your local machine. You would then do some work and eventually sync up with GitHub by doing a git push origin temporary. The second scenario is that you create a local branch on your machine called temporary. You could do this from the master branch by doing git branch temporary. You would then push this branch to GitHub using git push origin temporary.

If you are certain that you really want to push the master branch to the temporary branch on GitHub, then you can force it by doing git push origin temporary --force

From your later comments, this is what you want to do:

git checkout master
# work work work
git checkout -b temporary
git push origin temporary

Upvotes: 2

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