I'm trying to create a staging
branch on Heroku, but there's something I don't quite get.
Assuming I've already created a heroku app and setup the remote to point to staging-remote, If I do:
git checkout -b staging staging-remote/master
I get a local
branch called 'staging' which tracks staging-remote/master - or that's what I thought....
But:
git remote show staging-remote
Gives me this:
remote staging
Fetch URL:
[email protected]:myappname.git
Push URL:
[email protected]:myappname.git
HEAD branch: master
Remote branch:
master tracked
Local
branch configured for 'git pull':
staging-remote merges with remote master
Local ref configured for 'git push':
master pushes to master (up to date)
As you can see, the pull looks reasonable, but the default push does not. It implies that if I do:
git push staging-remote
I'm going to push my local master
branch up to the staging
branch. But that's not what I want.... Basically, I want to merge updates into my staging
branch, then easily push it to heroku without having to specify the
branch like so:
git push staging-remote mybranch:master
The above isn't hard to do, but I want to avoid accidentally doing the previous push and pushing the wrong
branch... This is doubly important for the production
branch I'd like to create!
I've tried messing with git config, but haven't figured out how to get this right yet...
