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user2071786
user2071786

Reputation: 121

Trying to understand why git creates a new branch after upstream git push

I am very new to git. Trying to figure some stuff out, so pls be gentle :-)

I'm trying to understand why git seems to create a new branch after an upstream git push.

starting sitation:

git checkout

says

FETCH_HEAD                      HEAD                            master                             pep-complaincy

then i do

git push --set-upstream pep8compliancy

and i get

FETCH_HEAD                      HEAD                            master                          pep8compliancy/pep-complaincy   pep-complaincy

They way I understand is that by doing the push command, I link my local "pep-complaincy" branch to a remote "pep8complaincy" branch.

I would expect the output of "git checkout" either to read "pep-complaincy" (not showing the remote branch) OR to read "pep8compliancy/pep-complaincy" (indicating that the local branch is now linked to a remote branch).

Can't figure out why git is now showing 2 branches. Any help explaining this would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 70

Answers (2)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1325195

First, don't use git checkout. It is an old, obsolete and confusing command used to:

Second, if you want to see the branches (local and remote) and their relationship, use:

git branch -avv

Upvotes: 2

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881653

git push --set-upstream pep8compliancy

This will create a relationship between your current local branch (which is master) and the upstream branch pep8compliancy, which should probably be called pep8compliance so as to not offend the grammar Nazis out there :-)

If you want a new branch with the same upstream name, that would have been something like:

git co master                            # Start with master as baseline.
git pull                                 # Ensure up to date.
git co -b pep8compliancy                 # New local branch at same point.
git push --set-upstream pep8compliancy   # Push to upstream, linking names.

Upvotes: 0

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