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

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edited Jan 29 '20 at 9:30

Alexander Tobias Bockstaller

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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-setupstreamupstream. This will add an upstream tracking reference for the current branch. you can verify this by looking in your .git/config file:

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-setupstream. This will add an upstream tracking reference for the current branch. you can verify this by looking in your .git/config file:

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:

Applied some formatting (as a result the diff looks much more extensive than it really is - use view "side-by-side markdown" to compare).

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edited May 21 '18 at 20:15

Peter Mortensen

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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
```
 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
```
gitUsing HEAD is a "handy way to push the current branch to the same name on the remote". Source: -u originhttps://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-setupstream. This will add an upstream tracking reference for the current branch. you can verify this by looking in your .git/config file:

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-setupstream. This will add an upstream tracking reference for the current branch. you can verify this by looking in your .git/config file:

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-setupstream. This will add an upstream tracking reference for the current branch. you can verify this by looking in your .git/config file:

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-setupstream. 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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created Jul 5 '16 at 8:13

bg17aw

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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-setupstream. 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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