how do you push only some of your local git commits?

Question

Suppose I have 5 local commits. I want to push only 2 of them to a centralized repo (using an SVN-style workflow). How do I do this?

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Answer 1

Short answer:

git push

Examples:

git push fc47b2

git push HEAD~2

Long answer:

Commits are linked together as a chain with a parent/child mechanism. Thus, pushing a commit actually also pushes all parent commits to this commit that where not known to the remote. This is implicitly done when you git push the current commit: all the previous commits are also pushed because this command is equivalent to git push HEAD.

So the question might be rewritten into How to push a specific commit and this specific commit might be HEAD~2, for example.

If the commits you want to push are non-consecutive, simply re-order them with a git rebase -i before the specific push.