Git: push to different locations per branch

Question

I'd like to set up a git repository in which I can push/pull my changes to/from different locations depending on which branch I am.
The idea is to have two branches:

master: for internal development (I'm disallowed to publish it at all) I
would push/pull from local Stash
dev: for pulling changes from github and contribute back, and also use it to merge changes occasionally to the master

I assume that with this setup I can easily handle internal/public development on the same project. Now I'm stuck at how to do this. I followed this answer but it seems to me that remote locations can be applied only on a whole repository rather than for separate branches.

How do fix this? If this is not the way to go, please suggest me a best practice.

[The git config docs](https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-config.html) have settings for exactly this kind of thing. Look for the `branch.` and `remote.` items. — jthill, Mar 03 '15 at 22:14
Possible duplicate of [Git - Different Remote for each Branch](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15775183/git-different-remote-for-each-branch) — Jonathan Wren, Apr 18 '19 at 20:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '15 at 22:07

The long format of git push is:

git push remotename localbranch:remotebranch

It gives you all the flexibility needed to selectively push branches to desired remotes.

Examples

Push master branch to origin
```
git push origin master
```
Push develop branch to myfork
```
git push myfork develop
```
Push develop branch to a branch called newbranch on myfork
```
git push myfork develop:newbranch
```
The full syntax with colon can also be used to delete a branch. This deletes newbranch from myfork by pushing "nothing" into it
```
git push myfork :newbranch
```

I tend to mostly use explicit commands with git rather than relying on some default behavior. Whenever a collegue is stuck on git there's usually a plain git pull or git push in his command history which makes me smile (or sigh if I'm in a particularly bad mood).

Since you're also asking for tip, before pushing you might want to look around:

git remote -v
git fetch remotename
git branch -a

Git: push to different locations per branch

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