Git which is the default configured remote for branch

Question

I have a remote bare repository hub  I work only in the master branch  The last sentence of this error message below makes me wonder  How do I find out which is the  default configured remote for your current branch   And how do I set it    myserver   progs   git remote -v hub       sitehub progs git   fetch  hub       sitehub progs git   push    myserver   progs   git branch -r   hub master   myserver   progs   cat  git HEAD ref  refs heads master   myserver   progs   git pull hub You asked to pull from the remote  hub   but did not specify a branch  Because this is not the default configured remote for your current branch  you must specify a branch on the command line

User · Answer

the command to get the effective push remote for the branch, e.g., master, is:

git config branch.master.pushRemote || git config remote.pushDefault || git config branch.master.remote

Here's why (from the "man git config" output):

branch.name.remote [...] tells git fetch and git push which remote to fetch from/push to [...] [for push] may be overridden with remote.pushDefault (for all branches) [and] for the current branch [..] further overridden by branch.name.pushRemote [...]

For some reason, "man git push" only tells about branch.name.remote (even though it has the least precedence of the three) + erroneously states that if it is not set, push defaults to origin - it does not, it's just that when you clone a repo, branch.name.remote is set to origin, but if you remove this setting, git push will fail, even though you still have the origin remote

User · Answer

For the sake of completeness  the previous answers tell how to set the upstream branch  but not how to see it    There are a few ways to do this   git branch -vv shows that info for all branches   formatted in blue in most terminals   cat  git config shows this also   For reference    how do I get git to show me which branches are tracking what  What is this branch tracking  if anything  in git

User · Answer

You can do it more simply  guaranteeing that your  gitconfig is left in a meaningful state    Using Git version v1 8 0 and above  git push -u hub master when pushing  or  git branch -u hub master  OR   This will set the remote for the currently checked-out branch to hub master  git branch --set-upstream-to hub master    OR   This will set the remote for the branch named branch name to hub master  git branch branch name --set-upstream-to hub master  If you re using v1 7 x or earlier  you must use --set-upstream  git branch --set-upstream master hub master

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Track the remote branch  You can specify the default remote repository for pushing and pulling using git-branch   s track option  You   d normally do this by specifying the --track option when creating your local master branch  but as it already exists we   ll just update the config manually like so   Edit your  git config   branch  master     remote   origin   merge   refs heads master   Now you can simply git push and git pull    source

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