From: Julia Evans via GitGitGadget Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:58:51 GMT Subject: [PATCH v5 5/5] doc: git-push: Add explanation of `git push origin main` Message-ID: In-Reply-To: From: Julia Evans What happens if you run `git push` without any arguments is actually extremely complex to explain, as discussed in the previous commit. But it's very easy to explain what `git push ` does, so start the man page by explaining what that does. The hope is that someone could just stop reading the man page here and never learn anything else about `git push`, and that would be fine. Signed-off-by: Julia Evans --- Documentation/git-push.adoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.adoc b/Documentation/git-push.adoc index aa01efcc0a..36bf1cc438 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-push.adoc @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ Updates one or more branches, tags, or other references in a remote repository from your local repository, and sends all necessary data that isn't already on the remote. +The simplest way to push is `git push `. +`git push origin main` will push the local `main` branch to the `main` +branch on the remote named `origin`. + The `` argument defaults to the upstream for the current branch, or `origin` if there's no configured upstream. -- gitgitgadget