Why do I need to explicitly push a new branch?

Question

I am new in git and I am practicing. I created a local branch but I saw that when I did git push my branch was not uploaded to the repository. I ha

Answer 1

HEAD is short for current branch so git push -u origin HEAD works. Now to avoid this typing everytime I use alias:

git config --global alias.pp 'push -u origin HEAD'

After this, everytime I want to push branch created via git -b branch I can push it using:

git pp

Hope this saves time for someone!