Re: Simple shortcut for "git push --set-upstream origin newBranchName"

From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Date: May 31, 2019, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20190531151126.GA3465@archbookpro.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <BN8PR21MB115693C381F65E97AB65FA18B7190@BN8PR21MB1156.namprd21.prod.outlook.com>

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:56:12PM +0000, Cliff Schomburg wrote:

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> Wow, I did not see that in the man pages... but I see it now.  Thanks!
> 
> So I guess I would change my ask to this:
> 
> "git push -u"
> 
> Should default to "origin branch" if no parameters are provided.  Thoughts?

I'll do you one better. You can run

	$ git push -u origin HEAD

and HEAD will mean the current branch, so you'll only need to specify the remote (in our case, origin).

Perhaps you could alias that to something like `git push-up`.

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> 
> Thanks,
> Cliff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patryk Obara <dreamer.tan@gmail.com> 
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 10:51 AM
> To: Cliff Schomburg <clisc@microsoft.com>; git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Simple shortcut for "git push --set-upstream origin newBranchName"
> 
> On 31/05/2019 16:45, Cliff Schomburg wrote:
> > I'm proposing a shortcut for this command.
> 
> What's wrong with "$ git push -u origin branch"?
> 
> --
> Patryk Obara