What Is the Difference Between Git Push Origin and Git Push Origin Master
Is There Any Difference in Pushing the Master Branch of a Local Git Repository to the Master Branch of a Remote Repository Called Origin with Git Push Origin...
Is there any difference in pushing the master branch of a local git repository to the master branch of a remote repository called origin with git push origin master
or with git push origin?
5 Answers
The default action of git push and git push origin has changed since git version 1.7.11:
Before
1.7.11,git pushby default pushes all branches that also exist remotely with the same name.Since
1.7.11,git pushby default pushes the current branch to a remote branch with the same name.
Before and after version 1.7.11, the default behavior can be configured with the push.default configuration option. This configuration option has been introduced in git version 1.6.3.
git push origin master
This only pushes your master branch to origin
git push origin
Pushes all your branches to origin
UPDATE - The behavior of Git has changed since this answer was written. git push origin on Git >=2.0 by default pushes the current branch to a matching branch of the same name, but this behavior can be overridden via git config
While git push origin on Git >=2.0 does indeed by default push the current branch to a matching branch of the same name, the documentation is wrong!
Said documentation is fixed with Git 2.32 (Q2 2021, 8 years later):
See commit 4c8e3dc (08 Mar 2021) by Taylor Blau (ttaylorr).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit c6617d1, 24 Mar 2021)
Documentation/git-push.txt: correct configuration typoReported-by: Adam Sharafeddine
Reported-by: Fabien Terrani
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder
In the EXAMPLES section,
git-pushsays that 'git push origin'(man) pushes the current branch to the value of the 'remote.origin.merge' configuration.This wording (which dates back to b2ed944 (
push: switch default from , 2013-01-04, Git v2.0.0-rc0 -- merge) (push: switch default from "matching" to "simple", 2013-01-04)) is incorrect.
There is no such configuration as 'remote.<name>.merge'.
This likely was originally intended to read "branch.<name>.merge" instead.Indeed, when '
push.default' is 'simple' (which is the default value, and is applicable in this scenario per "without additional configuration"),setup_push_upstream()dies if the branch's local name does not match 'branch.<name>.merge'.Correct this long-standing typo to resolve some recent confusion on the intended behavior of this example.
git push now includes in its man page:
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