Git Basics: How to push your commits to remote repository?

As of now, as part of the Git Tutorial Series we learned about the changes, the commit to the staging area and viewing the working tree status. Once we are fine with the local branch changes, we need to push it to remote repository.

In this part of the tutorial, we will learn how to push these commits/changes to remote. Lets start discussing about the “git push” command and it’s various parameters.

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Last time (recently) we discussed about "git add", "git commit" and "git status" and today we are going to see and discuss on the topic/command that will help you to push your commits/changes to remote branch of your repository. The command to do this is: git push and it actually updates remote refs along with associated objects.

Here is the list of command parameters, which you will find interesting while working with Git repositories and Git branches.

Push changes of current branch to remote:

$ git push

$ git push <remote>

$ git push origin

$ git push <remote> <branch>

$ git push origin <branch>

Push changes to a specific branch:

$ git push origin <branch>

Push the current branch to the same name on remote:

$ git push origin HEAD

Push matching branches to origin:

$ git push origin :

Push the current branch to the remote ref matching master in the origin:

$ git push origin HEAD:master

Push the current branch forcefully to remote:

$ git push origin -f <branch>

$ git push origin --force <branch>

Push all branches to remote:

$ git push --all

Push a single tag to remote:

$ git push <remote> <tag>

Push all the tags to remote:

$ git push origin --tags

Push the tags to a remote branch:

$ git push origin --tags <branch>

Rename a remote branch by pushing local branch:

$ git push <remote> <localBranch>:<remoteBranch>

Remove remote branches that don’t have a local counterpart:

$ git push origin --prune

Delete a remote branch:

$ git push <remote> :<branch>                # There's a space between <remote> and ':' (colon)

Add tracking refs for every branch that is up to date or pushed:

$ git push -u

$ git push --set-upstream

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