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CppNoob
CppNoob

Reputation: 2400

git - Pushing a local branch to the remote tracking branch of a parent

I have a local branch in my sandbox repository called local-branch which tracks a remote branch called remote-branch. I created the local branch thus:

$ git checkout -b local-branch remotes/origin/remote-branch

I created a branch from the local-branch called dev-branch:

$ git checkout -b dev-branch local-branch

I then committed some changes to dev-branch and now want to push it upstream to a branch off remote-branch. There it gets reviewed, approved and then merged into remote-branch. Following that, I need to git pull on my local-branch to sync it with remote-branch.

I am trying the following but this does not seem to work.

$ git push remotes/origin/remote-branch local-branch

I see the following error:

fatal: 'remotes/origin/remote-branch' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

But I can see the repository when I run:

$ git branch -a

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3641

Answers (1)

Greg Bacon
Greg Bacon

Reputation: 139691

To push local-branch from your repository into remote-branch on remote origin, use

git push origin local-branch:remote-branch

Based on the way you created local-branch in your question, git should have configured it to track origin/remote-branch. In that case, a simple git pull while local-branch is checked out will suffice to sync.

Your workflow is complicated. I suggest looking for ways to simplify that involve fewer names for each given branch.

Upvotes: 4

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