Git: which is the default configured remote for branch?
GitGit PushRemote BranchGit Problem Overview
I have a remote bare repository hub
. I work only in the master
branch.
The last sentence of this error message below makes me wonder: How do I find out which is the "default configured remote for your current branch"? And how do I set it?
[myserver]~/progs $ git remote -v
hub ~/sitehub/progs.git/ (fetch)
hub ~/sitehub/progs.git/ (push)
[myserver]~/progs $ git branch -r
hub/master
[myserver]~/progs $ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
[myserver]~/progs $ git pull hub
You asked to pull from the remote 'hub', but did not specify
a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote
for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
You can do it more simply, guaranteeing that your .gitconfig
is left in a meaningful state:
Using Git version v1.8.0 and above
git push -u hub master
when pushing, or:
git branch -u hub/master
OR
(This will set the remote for the currently checked-out branch to hub/master
)
git branch --set-upstream-to hub/master
OR
(This will set the remote for the branch named branch_name
to hub/master
)
git branch branch_name --set-upstream-to hub/master
v1.7.x
or earlier
If you're using you must use --set-upstream
:
git branch --set-upstream master hub/master
Solution 2 - Git
Track the remote branch
You can specify the default remote repository for pushing and pulling using git-branch’s track option. You’d normally do this by specifying the --track option when creating your local master branch, but as it already exists we’ll just update the config manually like so:
Edit your .git/config
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
Now you can simply git push and git pull.
[https://gist.github.com/569530">source>]
Solution 3 - Git
For the sake of completeness: the previous answers tell how to set the upstream branch, but not how to see it.
There are a few ways to do this:
git branch -vv
shows that info for all branches. (formatted in blue in most terminals)
cat .git/config
shows this also.
For reference:
Solution 4 - Git
The programmatic version of the answer to this question is:
git branch --show-current -vv --format='%(upstream:remotename)'
This will output just the current branch's default remote name. The --show-current
option will not work before Git version 2.22.0.
Solution 5 - Git
the command to get the effective push remote for the branch, e.g., master, is:
git config branch.master.pushRemote || git config remote.pushDefault || git config branch.master.remote
Here's why (from the "man git config" output):
branch.name.remote [...] tells git fetch and git push which remote to fetch from/push to [...] [for push] may be overridden with remote.pushDefault (for all branches) [and] for the current branch [..] further overridden by branch.name.pushRemote [...]
For some reason, "man git push" only tells about branch.name.remote (even though it has the least precedence of the three) + erroneously states that if it is not set, push defaults to origin - it does not, it's just that when you clone a repo, branch.name.remote is set to origin, but if you remove this setting, git push will fail, even though you still have the origin remote