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This article outlines the difference between the git push originand commands. We use these commands to push changes to a remote repository.git push origin master

The difference lies in how and when to use them, as explained below. We will go over what each command does, how to use it, and when to use each of the two commands.

git push origin master command

git push origin masterThe command is very simple. We use this command to push our local changes from the master branch to the remote master branch.

This is its default behavior and cannot be changed.

That's all. There's not much to say about the command. Let's move on to the next command.

git push origin command

git push originThe command is more complicated than the previous one. Before Git v1.7.11 , use git push originthe command to push all local branches to the corresponding remote branches.

Git version V2.0+ requires us to configure push.default to matching or simple . When not set, Git defaults to a simple configuration, which only pushes the current branch to the corresponding remote-tracking branch.

If there is no remote tracking branch for the local branch, the command will fail. Let's look at an example.

Suppose we have a feature branch in the local repository and it has a remote tracking branch, what happens when we call the git push origin command without setting the push.default value?

$ git push origin

Git will give you a warning as shown below.

The output will be:

As you can see from the output above, Git used a simple configuration and it simply pushed our feature branch to the remote repository.

What happens if we push.defaultset the value to matching ? Let’s find out.

$ git config --global push.default matching

When running git push originthe command, we get:

We can see that Git has pushed two branches to the remote. ( Master and feature branches)

In short, git push origin masterwill only push the master branch to the remote-tracking master branch. On the other hand, git push originthe command will push the current local branch, provided it has a remote-tracking branch.

However, you can change the behavior of this command to push all local branches to their corresponding remote-tracking branches by setting the push.default value to matching .