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I often create new branches locally (e.g., newLocalBranch), and then push them to the upstream remote origin, thus creating a new remote branch, using git push -u origin newLocalBranch. Is there a magit function equivalent to this operation?

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magit-push-current-to-pushremote actually works perfect for me. If the branch already exists upstream, magit-push-current-to-pushremote will just push the committed changes upstream. If the branch does not yet have an upstream location set, magit-push-current-to-pushremote will prompt to select a remote location from the minibuffer (e.g., origin) to the branch to, defaulting to the same local name (i.e., newLocalBranch). Using magit-push, instead, would fail because no upstream location has been set for the newLocalBranch yet.

Per the documentation for magit-push-current-to-pushremote:

Push the current branch to ‘branch.<name>.pushRemote’. If that variable is unset, then push to ‘remote.pushDefault’.

When ‘magit-push-current-set-remote-if-missing’ is non-nil and the push-remote is not configured, then read the push-remote from the user, set it, and then push to it.

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  • IIRC if you register the remote via magit it also offers to set the option and then the standard push does it too. Commented Mar 3, 2021 at 15:21
  • Please explain how that answers the question. Say what it does, for example. Commented Mar 3, 2021 at 15:49
  • If this is P p I don't see -u in the log, just -v. Commented Dec 5, 2022 at 12:38

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