Push branches to Git

Question

I have a local repository I'm working on and its remote is hosted on GitHub. I recently created a branch and started working on it, making several commits and now wish to push the branch to GitHub and be able to pull it to another cloned repository. How do I do this?

Answer 1

git push origin <local-branch-name>:<remote-branch-name>

Substitute for <local-branch-name> and <remote-branch-name>. They may be same or different, as you wish.

Answer 2

As you have set up the remotes already, the command is just

git push origin branch-name

on the first push.

Afterward, using git push origin would push all branches with the matching name on remote.

Answer 3

Make sure that your remote URL is using SSH syntax and not just Git protocol syntax. If you run,

git remote show origin

the URL printed should look something like,

[email protected]:yourname/projectname.git

You need the URL too to look like that if you want to be able to push. If you are just a public user (without write access) the URL will look like,

git://github.com/yourname/projectname.git

If yours looks like the latter then you can manually edit it in your projects .git/config file.

Answer 4

if you need to pull any branch code from remotely to locally

$git pull origin branch_name

while if you need to push code to your branch

you need to check is your code successfully save you can check by

$git status

than

$git add -A

after this make commit to your branch

$git commit -m "this is initial change"

than(Last) push your code to your branch by:

$git push origin branch_name