Changing the Git remote 'push to' default

Question

I want to change the Git default remote branch destination so I could just

git push

Instead of:

git push upstream
         


        

Answer 1

git remote set-url --push origin should work, as you mentioned, but you need to explicitly provide the url instead of an alternative remote name, e.g.

git remote set-url --push origin git@github.com:contributor/repo.git

You can confirm whether this worked by doing a git remote -v. E.g.

λ ~/go/src/github.com/stretchr/testify/ master git remote -v
fork    git@github.com:contributor/testify.git (fetch)
fork    git@github.com:contributor/testify.git (push)
origin  git@github.com:stretchr/testify (fetch)
origin  git@github.com:contributor/testify.git (push)