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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Pushing and Pulling

Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy
2,559 Points
Posted by Luke Kennedy
Luke Kennedy
2,559 Points

Error message when pushing.

I got the following error when pushing.

Could someone help explain this?

I'm running Terminal on Mac OSX

```warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value has changed in Git 2.0 from 'matching' to 'simple'. To squelch this message and maintain the traditional behavior, use:

git config --global push.default matching

To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:

git config --global push.default simple

When push.default is set to 'matching', git will push local branches to the remote branches that already exist with the same name.

Since Git 2.0, Git defaults to the more conservative 'simple' behavior, which only pushes the current branch to the corresponding remote branch that 'git pull' uses to update the current branch.

See 'git help config' and search for 'push.default' for further information. (the 'simple' mode was introduced in Git 1.7.11. Use the similar mode 'current' instead of 'simple' if you sometimes use older versions of Git)

fatal: The current branch new_feature_test has no upstream branch. To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

git push --set-upstream origin new_feature_test ```

1 Answer

Ingvi Jonasson
Ingvi Jonasson
12,173 Points

It seems you are working on a feature branch so not the master branch, which is perfectly normal.

Try this:

git checkout master
git merge whateverbranchyouwereworkingon
git push

Of course this mean you are pushing master branch and not the branch you were working on. The branch you were working on is not on the remote server.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Good luck.