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John Dui
John Dui

Reputation: 581

Pushing a new branch in Git

I am using Git, and I have created a new branch (named foo) on my local (one that doesn't exist on the repository).

I have made some changes to my original project (master) files and committed all those changes in this new branch. Now I would like to push this new branch to the remote repository. How can I do that?

If I just run git push while I am on the branch foo, will this push the entire branch to the repo? I don't want my changes to be pushed to master. I just want to push this new branch to the main repository.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 44393

Answers (6)

David
David

Reputation: 3055

To push a branch onto a remote repository you should use this syntax:

git push (remote) (branch)

Usually the first remote (and often the unique) is named "origin", thus in your case you would run:

git push origin foo

It is usually advisable to run a slightly more complex command:

git branch --set-upstream-to origin/foo

because --set-upstream-to (abbreviated -u) sets a tracking on that branch and will allow you to push future changes simply running:

git push origin

Tracking branches are local branches that have a direct relationship to a remote branch. If you’re on a tracking branch and type git pull, Git automatically knows which server to fetch from and branch to merge into. (Git documentation)

Upvotes: 10

Pranesh Ravi
Pranesh Ravi

Reputation: 19133

Yes. It'll prompt you to set the upstream. You can set the upstream branch like this:

git branch --set-upstream-to origin/yourbranch

It's same for everything except for the branch name. Follow the on screen guidelines.

Upvotes: 11

gutte
gutte

Reputation: 1473

checkout in to your local branch and use: git push -u origin <branch>. this will create the new branch at the remote and push all the changes

Upvotes: 3

haiyang
haiyang

Reputation: 320

use git remote -v to show your remote repo name and url:

origin   ssh://**/*.git (fetch)
origin   ssh://**/*.git (push)

origin is your remote repo name at local: You can use this command to push your new branch to origin remote repo:

git push origin [your-branch-name]

Like this:

git push origin foo

Upvotes: 1

yorammi
yorammi

Reputation: 6458

If the upstream is defined OK, run the following command:

git push origin foo:foo

Upvotes: 1

Hevlastka
Hevlastka

Reputation: 1948

git push origin foo should do the trick. Latest git versions only push single branches (so git push would work as long as you checked out foo ) unless you change push behaviour in git config.

Reference can be found here

Upvotes: 1

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