Git Push Changes to Remote

Use git push command to copy local changes (Committed changes) to the remote git repository.

Syntax:

git push [remote_repository] [remote_branch]

Git Push Example

After committing all the new files or updated files, You can push your changes to remote git repository using “git push” command.

• The default remote repository referred as origin. You can find this with git remote -v command.
• The default branch is used master. You can find current active branch with git branch command.

git push origin master

The above command will upload all changes to the origin remote repository under the master branch.

You can use above command like below. Without branch name and origin, git push will use origin by default and it pushes our current active branch to the origin remote.

git push

Running example of git push command:

git push origin master

Counting objects: 5, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 11.90 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://github.com/tecrahul/tecadmin.net
   cd5dd84..3d31ae3  master -> master

Git Push Other Branches

You are working on different local branch named “develop”. You can push changes of develop branch to remote develop branch by executing command:

Make sure you are on develop branch using git branch command.

git push origin develop

In some cases you may required to push your local branch to a remote branch with a different name. You can do this by specifying remote branch:

git push origin develop:remote-branch-name