Syncing with remote branch

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Is it possible to push to remote branch directly ?

This is scenario:

There is branch on github repo lets call it X, I cloned project to my local repo, when i type:

git checkout origin/x

I get text in terminal saying: "You are in 'detached HEAD' state ... If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create ... git checkout -b new_branch_name".

So i create new branch, do my job, make commit and push it to remote github repo with folowing command:

git push -u origin name_of_my_branch

That comand created branch on github repo, so now i am able to make pull request to that online branch, so again i am wondering is it possible to sync this branch directly with remote branch(x) and push to that branch(x) directly, without pull requests ?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '15 at 18:36

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You can push directly to the remote branch:

git push -u origin x

answered Dec 01 '15 at 18:36

Joseph Silber

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I get error when i try to do so, more precise: error: src refspect X does not match any. – vlsim Dec 01 '15 at 18:42
Is the name of the remote branch `x`? – Joseph Silber Dec 01 '15 at 18:43
Yes name of the remote branch is X – vlsim Dec 01 '15 at 18:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 15 '19 at 01:18

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git will automatically track the local branch to the remote one if you just "git checkout x". Don't prefix it with "origin/" or you will get the "detached head" message.

answered Sep 15 '19 at 01:18

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Syncing with remote branch

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