How to push a local branch to a directory of remote branch?

Question

For instance:

I have a local repo branch 'master', and a remote repo branch 'r-master' with a directory 'dir1', I'd like to push 'master' to 'r-master/dir1' and making 'master' to keep track of 'r-master/dir1', is that possible?

Answer 1

Branches and directories are two separate concepts in Git (as oppose to SVN where directories represents branches or tag: See "Git - Store branches in separate local directories").

So you can push master to r-master, but not to r-master/dir1

git push -u origin master:r-master

(with -u or --set-upstream if you need tracking: see

• "What exactly does the “u” do? “git push -u origin master” vs “git push origin master”"
• "What's the difference between git config and git push --set-upstream")