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afriedman111
afriedman111

Reputation: 2331

Push to upstream branch from local branch

I have an upstream project which I have forked. I created a new branch on my local and made changes to it. Now I wish to push to a branch upstream so my friend can see it. Can I push code that I changed in my own fork to a branch in the upstream by passing pull requests? Do I need to create a branch in my upstream first? How do I accomplish this?

I have tried:

git push upstream my-upstream-branch

which resulted in:

error: src refspec my-upstream-branch does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/upstream-repo'

I have all of my code checked in.

I also tried to create a new branch from the upstream branch and got

git checkout -b shell-ui upstream/shell-ui
fatal: 'upstream/shell-ui' is not a commit and a branch 'shell-ui' cannot be created from it

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1221

Answers (2)

Gabriel Melo
Gabriel Melo

Reputation: 521

If you want to open a PR in the upstream you'll only need to:

  1. Fork the upstream & create a new branch to work on locally;
  2. Push your local changes to your remote forked repo;
  3. Access the upstream repo page and then Compare & pull request*.

*You'll see something like the shown here.

Upvotes: 0

Esha
Esha

Reputation: 151

You need push the branch with change to your forked repo or to upstream repo first.

  • To push your branch to your forked repo git push --set-upstream origin branch_name

  • To push to upstream repo git push --set-upstream upstream branch_name

And then you can create a pull request.

If you have pushed to the branch to your forked repo, then you need to create a pull request from new branch of the forked repo to the main branch of the upstream repo

If you have pushed to the branch to upstream repo, then you need to create a pull request from the new branch in upstream to the main branch of upstream

Upvotes: 1

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