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.
This question is related to
git
git-push
remote-branch
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.
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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
You can do it more simply, guaranteeing that your .gitconfig is left in a meaningful state:
git push -u hub master when pushing, or:
git branch -u hub/master
(This will set the remote for the currently checked-out branch to hub/master)
git branch --set-upstream-to hub/master
(This will set the remote for the branch named branch_name to hub/master)
git branch branch_name --set-upstream-to hub/master
v1.7.x or earlieryou must use --set-upstream:
git branch --set-upstream master hub/master
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:
Source: Stackoverflow.com