Git - push current branch shortcut

Question

Is there a shortcut to tell Git to push the current tracking branch to origin  Note  I know that I can change the default push behavior  but I am looking for an ad-hoc solution that does not change the default behavior    For example  suppose I am on branch feature 123-sandbox-tests I would be using  git push origin feature 123-sandbox-tests   which is tedious  I am looking for a shortcut  something like  git push origin current   where git knows that current is feature 123-sandbox-tests     Edit  Starting from version 2 0  git s default behavior has changed to a more intuitive behavior  which is what I wanted to achieve  See This SO question for details     Edit 2  ceztko s answer is the best answer as it allows to push the current branch  regardless of the settings

User · Accepted Answer

According to git push documentation   git push origin HEAD     A handy way to push the current branch to the same name on the remote    So I think what you need is git push origin HEAD  Also it can be useful git push -u origin HEAD to set upstream tracking information in the local branch  if you haven t already pushed to the origin

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You should take a look to a similar question in Default behavior of  quot git push quot  without a branch specified  Basically it explains how to set the default behavior to push your current branch just executing git push  Probably what you need is    git config --global push default current  Other options    nothing   Do not push anything  matching   Push all matching branches upstream tracking   Push the current branch to whatever it is tracking current   Push the current branch

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With the help of ceztko s answer I wrote this little helper function to make my life easier   function gpu         if git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name   u   gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1  then         git push origin HEAD     else         git push -u origin HEAD     fi     It pushes the current branch to origin and also sets the remote tracking branch if it hasn t been setup yet

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The simplest way  run git push -u origin feature 123-sandbox-tests once  That pushes the branch the way you re used to doing it and also sets the upstream tracking info in your local config  After that  you can just git push to push tracked branches to their upstream remote s    You can also do this in the config yourself by setting branch  lt branch name gt  merge to the remote branch name  in your case the same as the local name  and optionally  branch  lt branch name gt  remote to the name of the remote you want to push to  defaults to origin   If you look in your config  there s most likely already one of these set for master  so you can follow that example   Finally  make sure you consider the push default setting  It defaults to  matching   which can have undesired and unexpected results  Most people I know find  upstream  more intuitive  which pushes only the current branch   Details on each of these settings can be found in the git-config man page   On second thought  on re-reading your question  I think you know all this  I think what you re actually looking for doesn t exist  How about a bash function something like  untested    function pushCurrent     git config push default upstream   git push   git config push default matching

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If you are using git 1 7 x  you can run the following command to set the remote tracking branch   git branch --set-upstream feature 123-sandbox-tests origin feature 123-sandbox-tests   Then you can simply use git push to push all the changes  For a more complete answer  please see the accepted answer to a similar question here   If you only want to push the current branch with the push command  then you can change the push behaviour to upstream   git config --global push default upstream

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You can configure git to push to the current branch using the following command  git config --global push default current   then just do   git push    this will push the code to your current branch

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For what it s worth  the ultimate shortcut   In my  bash profile I have alias push  git push origin HEAD   so whenever i type push I know I m pushing to the current branch I m on

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I use such alias in my  bashrc config  alias gpb  git push origin  git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD     On the command  gpb it takes the current branch name and pushes it to the origin   Here are my other aliases   alias gst  git status  alias gbr  git branch  alias gca  git commit -am  alias gco  git checkout

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