No More “git push — set-upstream origin new-branch”

If you’re using GIT, you surely know that after creating a new branch locally:

git checkout -b new-branch

And committing your changes, you still have to create the remote branch respectfully with:

git push --set-upstream origin new-branch

It’s quite annoying because GIT should know that we want to do it anyway. Fortunately it changed with Git 2.37. To check your version of Git type:

git --version

If your version is older, update it. But it’s not all. You have also set up a special parameter:

git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true

The parameter is widely undocumented. It’s surprisingly given how important it is.

After setting up the parameter, all you have to do is:

git push

GIT will figure out you want to create an upstream branch. Less writing makes me happy :)

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