How to push to a remote branch without providing the full push refspec?

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I have two branches on my remote: master and "cms". Now when I push to the cms branch I have to type: git push origin HEAD:cms. Is that really how it works or is there a shortcut command that I can use?

Basically I'd like to have to option to choose to switch between each of my remote branches in the same way that I do it with my local branches. How do I do that?

Setting the upstream branch as suggested is a good way to shortcut push specifications. The answer to this **[question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1519006/git-how-to-create-remote-branch/)** might also be useful to you. — miqh, Oct 23 '13 at 07:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '13 at 07:03

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you can do:

git branch -u origin/cms

and if the local branch cms is not the current branch

git branch -u origin/cms cms

these commands will set you up so you can do:

git push origin cms

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answered Oct 23 '13 at 07:03

Josue Alexander Ibarra

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 23 '13 at 10:38

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If the cms branch exists in remote, and if you are currently working in that branch, simply git push is enough.

It should work for you.

edited Oct 23 '13 at 10:38

Paolo Casciello

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answered Oct 23 '13 at 09:54

Breen ho

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How to push to a remote branch without providing the full push refspec?

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