Re: git push origin BRANCHNAME question

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2016, 17:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqr39cn3fk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <6c4fbb7d-6f67-b454-2b4b-9f5fbeffae9b@greenberg.org>

Ed Greenberg <edg@greenberg.org> writes:

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> I think I understand this from the git-push man page, but I want to
> make sure:
>
> I have two branches, master and develop.
>
> If I am (accidentally) sitting on master, and issue 'git push origin
> develop', does this properly push develop to remote develop, or does
> it push master to remote develop (which seems to be bad, in the most
> common use case.)  ?

You can find it out yourself quite easily, I would think.

$ git init src $ git init dst $ cd src $ git commit --allow-empty -m initial $ git checkout -b develop $ git commit --allow-empty -m second

$ git checkout master
$ git push ../dst develop
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 6 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 226 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ../dst
 * [new branch]      develop -> develop