How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too

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I want to be able to do the following   Create a local branch based on some other  remote or local  branch  via git branch or git checkout -b   Push the local branch to the remote repository  publish   but make it trackable so git pull and git push will work immediately    How do I do that  I know about --set-upstream in Git 1 7  but that is a post-creation action  I want to find a way to make a similar change when pushing the branch to the remote repository

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I simply do git push -u origin localBranch remoteBranchToBeCreated  over an already cloned project  Git creates a new branch named remoteBranchToBeCreated under my commits I did in localBranch  Edit  this changes your current local branch s  possibly named localBranch  upstream to origin remoteBranchToBeCreated  To fix that  simply type  git branch --set-upstream-to origin localBranch  or git branch -u origin localBranch  So your current local branch now tracks origin localBranch back

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I made an alias so that whenever I create a new branch  it will push and track the remote branch accordingly  I put following chunk into the  bash profile file     Create a new branch  push to origin and track that remote branch publishBranch       git checkout -b  1   git push -u origin  1   alias gcb publishBranch   Usage  just type gcb thuy do-sth-kool with thuy do-sth-kool is my new branch name

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Prior to the introduction of git push -u  there was no git push option to obtain what you desire  You had to add new configuration statements   If you create a new branch using     git checkout -b branchB   git push origin branchB branchB   You can use the git config command to avoid editing directly the  git config file     git config branch branchB remote origin   git config branch branchB merge refs heads branchB   Or you can edit manually the  git config file to had tracking information to this branch    branch  branchB       remote   origin     merge   refs heads branchB

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For greatest flexibility  you could use a custom Git command  For example  create the following Python script somewhere in your  PATH under the name git-publish and make it executable      usr bin env python3  import argparse import subprocess import sys   def publish args       return subprocess run   git    push    --set-upstream   args remote  args branch   returncode   def parse args        parser   argparse ArgumentParser description  Push and set upstream for a branch       parser add argument  -r    --remote   default  origin                           help  The remote name  default is  origin         parser add argument  -b    --branch   help  The branch name  default is whatever HEAD is pointing to                            default  HEAD       return parser parse args     def main        args   parse args       return publish args    if   name         main         sys exit main      Then git publish -h will show you usage information   usage  git-publish  -h   -r REMOTE   -b BRANCH   Push and set upstream for a branch  optional arguments    -h  --help            show this help message and exit   -r REMOTE  --remote REMOTE                         The remote name  default is  origin     -b BRANCH  --branch BRANCH                         The branch name  default is whatever HEAD is pointing to

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You can do it in 2 steeps    1  Use the checkout for create the local branch   git checkout -b yourBranchName   Work with your Branch as you want   2  Use the push command to autocreate the branch and send the code to the remote repository   git push -u origin yourBanchName      There are mutiple ways to do this but I think that this way is really simple

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Building slightly upon the answers here  I ve wrapped this process up as a simple Bash script  which could of course be used as a Git alias as well   The important addition to me is that this prompts me to run unit tests before committing and passes in the current branch name by default     git push new branch sh    Have you run your unit tests yet  If so  pass OK or a branch name  and try again    usage  git push new branch  OK BRANCH NAME     e g     git push new branch           - gt  Displays prompt reminding you to run unit tests   git push new branch OK        - gt  Pushes the current branch as a new branch to the origin   git push new branch MYBRANCH  - gt  Pushes branch MYBRANCH as a new branch to the origin   git push new branch sh  function show help       IT   cat  lt  lt EOF    Have you run your unit tests yet  If so  pass OK or a branch name  and try again    usage  git push new branch  OK BRANCH NAME     e g     git push new branch sh           - gt  Displays prompt reminding you to run unit tests   git push new branch sh OK        - gt  Pushes the current branch as a new branch to the origin   git push new branch sh MYBRANCH  - gt  Pushes branch MYBRANCH as a new branch to the origin        echo   IT    exit    if   -z   1    then   show help fi  CURR BRANCH   git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD  if     1      OK    then   BRANCH  CURR BRANCH else   BRANCH   1 - CURR BRANCH  fi  git push -u origin  BRANCH

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edit Outdated  just use git push -u origin  BRANCHNAME  Use git publish-branch from William s miscellaneous Git tools  OK  no Ruby  so - ignoring the safeguards  - take the last three lines of the script and create a bash script  git-publish-branch     bin bash REMOTE  1   Rewrite this to make it optional    BRANCH  2   Uncomment the following line to create BRANCH locally first  git checkout -b   BRANCH  git push   ORIGIN    BRANCH  refs heads   BRANCH   amp  amp  git config branch   BRANCH  remote   REMOTE   amp  amp  git config branch   BRANCH  merge refs heads   BRANCH   Then run git-publish-branch REMOTENAME BRANCHNAME  where REMOTENAME is usually origin  you may modify the script to take origin as default  etc

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If you are not sharing your repo with others  this is useful to push all your branches to the remote  and --set-upstream tracking correctly for you   git push --all -u    Not exactly what the OP was asking for  but this one-liner is pretty popular   If you are sharing your repo with others this isn t really good form as you will clog up the repo with all your dodgy experimental branches

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A slight variation of the solutions already given here    Create a local branch based on some other  remote or local  branch   git checkout -b branchname  Push the local branch to the remote repository  publish   but make it trackable so git pull and git push will work immediately  git push -u origin HEAD   Using HEAD is a  handy way to push the current branch to the same name on the remote   Source  https   git-scm com docs git-push In Git terms  HEAD  in uppercase  is a reference to the top of the current branch  tree    The -u option is just short for --set-upstream  This will add an upstream tracking reference for the current branch  you can verify this by looking in your  git config file

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Simply put  to create a new local branch  do   git branch  lt branch-name gt    To push it to the remote repository  do   git push -u origin  lt branch-name gt

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To create a new branch by branching off from an existing branch  git checkout -b  lt new branch gt    and then push this new branch to repository using  git push -u origin  lt new branch gt    This creates and pushes all local commits to a newly created remote branch origin  lt new branch gt

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For GitLab version prior to 1 7  use   git checkout -b name branch    name branch  ex  master   To push it to the remote repository  do   git push -u origin name new branch    name new branch  example  feature

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I suppose that you have already cloned a project like   git clone http   github com myproject git    Then in your local copy  create a new branch and check it out   git checkout -b  lt newbranch gt   Supposing that you made a  git bare --init  on your server and created the myapp git  you should   git remote add origin ssh   example com var git myapp git git push origin master  After that  users should be able to  git clone http   example com var git myapp git    NOTE  I m assuming that you have your server up and running  If it isn t  it won t work  A good how-to is here   ADDED  Add a remote branch   git push origin master new feature name   Check if everything is good  fetch origin and list remote branches    git fetch origin git branch -r   Create a local branch and track the remote branch   git checkout -tb new feature name origin new feature name   Update everything   git pull

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I think this is the simplest alias  add to your    gitconfig  alias    publish-branch    git push -u origin   git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD   You just run git publish-branch  and    it publishes the branch

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In Git 1 7 0 and later  you can checkout a new branch   git checkout -b  lt branch gt    Edit files  add and commit  Then push with the -u  short for --set-upstream  option   git push -u origin  lt branch gt    Git will set up the tracking information during the push

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