From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Cc: git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git push in --tracked branches.
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:44:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100422004433.GC14249@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2w3abd05a91004211702qf4cd42bau20ac52a4d35a6bf1@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:02:49PM -0400, Aghiles wrote:
> So I created a branch that tracks 'origin' which is remote:
>
> git checkout -b small_fixes origin
>
> I can do a 'git pull' and everything works as expected. I did some
> commits in this branch and I issue a 'git push'. To my surprise
> the 'git push' is still operating on the master and not the current
> 'small_fixes' branch! What is the rationale behind this ? I would
> expect to push from my current branch to origin (especially that
> I am --tracking origin).
"git push" will by default push matching refs. This has been the
behavior since day one. See the description of push.default in "git help
config" for other options (I think you want "tracking").
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-22 0:02 git push in --tracked branches Aghiles
2010-04-22 0:44 ` Jeff King [this message]
2010-04-22 1:13 ` Aghiles
2010-04-22 1:52 ` Jeff King
2010-04-22 19:52 ` Aghiles
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