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I'm following this tutorial on pushing an existing project to Bitbucket, and it mentions using the command git push -u origin --all. How does this command differ from git push origin master?

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  • git help push Commented Apr 17, 2020 at 12:37

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  • git push origin master pushes your current branch up to the master branch on origin.
  • git push -u origin -all pushes all branches to origin. The -u option sets up your local branches to track the remote branches. This essentially establishes a link between your local branch, and the branch on the remote repository. Without doing this if you switch to one of these branches and do a git push you'll be greeted with an error message fatal: The current branch <branch-name> has no upstream branch. You can check the branch link by command git branch -vv.

Summary: git push -u origin -all pushes all branches to origin, git push origin master pushes your current branch up to the master branch on origin.

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Middle ground is git push -u origin master, which pushes & tracks only a single branch.

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