fatal: The upstream branch of your current branch does not match the name of your current branch

Question

After doing a checkout of the remote branch releases/rel_5.4.1 using the Git GUI, I\'m seeing this unexpected error message when I try to push:

Answer 1

This error can be fixed for once and all, with:

git branch releases/rel_5.4.1 -u origin/releases/rel_5.4.1

It changes the upstream of the branch, to match the correct remote (again).