difference between origin/branch_name and branch_name?

Question

for pushing to bitbucket.

If I do: git push origin origin/branch_name my commits are not pushed.

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Answer 1

using a graphical tree viewer (like gitk --all) will show you, that origin/mybranch and mybranch might differ.

origin is just the default name for a cloned remote, which (in your case) contains a branch mybranch (just like your local repository)

so when you ask to push origin/mybranch to origin, you are synchronizing the origin remote with itself, hence it doesn't do anything (luckily the remote is always in synch with itself).

the name origin is arbitrary, and could have been set with the --origin flag when cloning.