Push a new branch and track it

Pushes the branch to the remote and sets it as upstream, so later git push and git pull need no arguments.

git push -u origin branch

Edit the highlighted values, then copy. They are inserted as typed, without shell escaping.

Tool

git

Category

Git & CI

Tags

• remote
• push

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Adapted from tldr-pages (common/git-push.md), licensed under CC BY 4.0.