Re: pushing branches

[Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Yes.
>
>> Hence does not make sense to ask git to do "push origin master" while
>> inside feature-work branch.
>
> No.  As long as you know your master is ready and suitable to be
> published when you ask "push", the command perfectly makes sense; it
> does not matter on what branch you are on.
>
> You may say
>
>         $ git checkout master
>         ... work work work ...
>         $ make test
>         ... ahh, perfection! ...
>         $ git checkout -b feature
>         ... let's build a bit more ..
>         ... while I am having fun, let's not forget to push the
>         ... part that is already solid out
>         $ git push origin master
>
> and that is perfectly fine without "git checkout master" before
> pushing (and "git checkout feature" after to come back to what you
> were doing).
In my case it wouldn't because I do not modify my master branch, I
just fetch upstream, merge upstream/master into my local master branch
and switch to feature-work, then git push origin master will always
give me "Everything up-to-date" I suppose (that is what always happen
in my case/workflow).

And just learned, the answer to my question is, while in feature-work
branch, 'git push origin feature-work'. Which does what I wanted.