`Local ref configured for 'git push':` section of `git remote show origin` is not updating

Question

I have a branch sf locally and a branch serverfix on remote.

The output of git remote show origin:

* remote origin
  Fetch URL: git@github.com:pr0g4amtest1ng/git-remote.git
  Push  URL: git@github.com:pr0g4amtest1ng/git-remote.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    master    tracked
    serverfix tracked
  Local branches configured for 'git pull':
    master merges with remote master
    sf     merges with remote serverfix
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (up to date)

To make things easy for git push, I did the following:

git config push.default upstream
git push -u

Now if I run git remote show origin again

* remote origin
  Fetch URL: git@github.com:pr0g4amtest1ng/git-remote.git
  Push  URL: git@github.com:pr0g4amtest1ng/git-remote.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    master    tracked
    serverfix tracked
  Local branches configured for 'git pull':
    master merges with remote master
    sf     merges with remote serverfix
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (up to date)

Strangely Local ref configured for 'git push': didn't change at all. Shouldn't it add an entry like sf pushes to serverfix (up to date) or something like that.

But if I do git push origin sf, it gives Everything up-to-date and it is not creating an sf branch on remote anymore, that means it is tracking.

How will I know which branch are being tracked for 'git push' ? Why there isn't an entry added for Local ref configured for 'git push': or when an entry will be added for that matter.

Answer 1

You have two choices

• First choice:

  git config remote.origin.push <local_branch_refs>:<remote_branch_refs>

• Second choice: git config --edit to edit the .git/config file.

  [remote "origin"]
   push = <local_branch_refs>:<remote_branch_refs>

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For your case, it should be:

git config remote.origin.push refs/heads/sf:/refs/heads/serverfix

After that, you can see the updates in Local ref configured for 'git push' section by git remote show origin.

Answer 2

push.default = upstream: push the current branch…

To list branches with their upstreams: git branch -vv.