Re: pushing branches

From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2012, 15:49 UTC
Message-ID: <CACnwZYchBpSsvfY_-cu33dmPateNPgYaPr822Ri=Xn6=V0OOnA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vhat2toz8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> How can I push a working branch to github inside it?
>>
>> E.g:
>>
>> # On master:
>> $ git checkout -b feature-work
>>
>> # On feature-work
>> # vi, hack, commit, ready to push
>> $ git push origin master # here I expected it would working pushing my
>
> "git push origin master" is a short-hand for "git push origin
> refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master" to update their master branch
> with what you have in your master branch.
>
> See output from
>
>     $ git push --help
>
> for details.
>
> I think you are trying to update, while on your feature-work branch,
> their master with your feature-work branch (or more generally, the
> current HEAD), so
>
>     $ git push origin HEAD:master
>
> is perhaps what you are looking for?

What I'm looking for is to upload/create the remote branch in github from inside my local branch, without having to checkout master in order to do so.