Re: git push origin BRANCHNAME question

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Ed Greenberg <edg@greenberg.org> writes:

> I think I understand this from the git-push man page, but I want to
> make sure:
>
> I have two branches, master and develop.
>
> If I am (accidentally) sitting on master, and issue 'git push origin
> develop', does this properly push develop to remote develop, or does
> it push master to remote develop (which seems to be bad, in the most
> common use case.)  ?

You can find it out yourself quite easily, I would think.

$ git init src
$ git init dst
$ cd src
$ git commit --allow-empty -m initial
$ git checkout -b develop
$ git commit --allow-empty -m second

$ git checkout master
$ git push ../dst develop
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 6 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 226 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ../dst
 * [new branch]      develop -> develop