git push to specific branch

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Even after reading this question  git-push-current-branch  I am still having difficulty figuring out how I should write my git push command  As mentioned in the question link  it s not clear from the documentation   I would like to use my  real world  example  Following is what I see when I do a git status command on the top level of my branch      On branch amd qlp tester      Your branch is ahead of  origin amd qlp tester  by 5 commits       etc      So my branch name is amd qlp tester but it was  branched  off from the main branch  if I have the terms wrong it s because of my SVN background   But then there is also the name  origin amd qlp testser   So how do I phrase my push command   Is it any of the following   git push origin amd qlp tester git push origin amd qlp tester git push amd qlp tester git push origin git push

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git push origin amd qlp tester will work for you  If you just type git push  then the remote of the current branch is the default value    Syntax of push looks like this - git push  lt remote gt   lt branch gt    If you look at your remote in  git config file  you will see an entry  remote  origin   which specifies url of the repository  So  in the first part of command you will tell Git where to find repository for this project  and then you just specify a branch

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The answers in question you linked-to are all about configuring git so that you can enter very short git push commands and have them do whatever you want   Which is great  if you know what you want and how to spell that in Git-Ese  but you re new to git   -   In your case  Petr Mensik s answer is the  well   a   right one   Here s why   The command git push remote roots around in your  git config file to find the named  remote   e g   origin    The config file lists    where  URL-wise  that remote  lives   e g   ssh   hostname path  where pushes go  if different what gets pushed  if you didn t say what branch es  to push what gets fetched when you run git fetch remote   When you first cloned the repo   whenever that was   git set up default values for some of these   The URL is whatever you cloned from and the rest  if set or unset  are all  reasonable  defaults     or  hmm  are they   The issue with these is that people have changed their minds  over time  as to what is  reasonable    So now  depending on your version of git and whether you ve configured things in detail   git may print a lot of warnings about defaults changing in the future   Adding the name of the  branch to push    amd qlp tester    1  shuts it up  and  2  pushes just that one branch   If you want to push more conveniently  you could do that with   git push origin   or even   git push   but whether that does what you want  depends on whether you agree with  early git authors  that the original defaults are reasonable  or  later git authors  that the original defaults aren t reasonable   So  when you want to do all the configuration stuff  eventually   see the question  and answers  you linked-to   As for the name origin amd qlp tester in the first place  that s actually a local entity  a name kept inside your repo   even though it s called a  remote branch    It s git s best guess at  where amd qlp tester is over there    Git updates it when it can

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If your Local branch and remote branch is the same name then you can just do it    git push origin branchName   When your local and remote branch name is different then you can just do it   git push origin localBranchName remoteBranchName

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I would like to add an updated answer - now I have been using git for a while  I find that I am often using the following commands to do any pushing  using the original question as the example     git push origin amd qlp tester - push to the branch located in the remote called origin on remote-branch called amd qlp tester  git push -u origin amd qlp tester - same as last one  but sets the upstream linking the local branch to the remote branch so that next time you can just use git push pull if not already linked  only need to do it once   git push - Once you have set the upstream you can just use this shorter version    Note -u option is the short version of --set-upstream - they are the same

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