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BeeOnRope
BeeOnRope

Reputation: 64925

Change the default remote for push suggestion

When I create a new branch and do git push for the first time, it fails and gives me a suggestion like so:

fatal: The current branch new-branch has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

    git push --set-upstream origin new-branch

How can I change the default remote origin that it suggests pushing to? I want it to suggest a different origin that I have added: git push --set-upstream different-origin new-branch.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (1)

torek
torek

Reputation: 488203

The name printed here is obtained by the function pushremote_for_branch, which reads:

    if (branch && branch->pushremote_name) {
            if (explicit)
                    *explicit = 1;
            return branch->pushremote_name;
    }
    if (pushremote_name) {
            if (explicit)
                    *explicit = 1;
            return pushremote_name;
    }
    return remote_for_branch(branch, explicit);

Here, branch->pushremote_name comes from the configuration item branch.name.pushRemote if that's set. Meanwhile, remote.pushDefault fills in the answer in remote_for_branch. If neither of those supply the answer, the fallback is to use branch.name.remote.

Hence:

git branch newbranch
git config branch.newbranch.pushremote newremote

will guarantee that the default is newremote. But if you don't want to have to run git config branch.newbranch.pushremote—and of course it won't already be configured if you just created it—then:

git config remote.pushdefault newremote

will set a recommendation—and a default—for every branch that doesn't already have an explicit pushremote setting. If that's too global, you'll need an explicit git config branch.newbranch.something, whether the something is pushremote or remote, so that the setting is just for that one branch.

(You can spell it pushRemote, as the documentation does, or even PUSHREMOTE or PUshreMOte or whatever, if you like. Git internally translates everything to lowercase, and then compares the lowercase names.)

Upvotes: 1

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