Why is git pushing to two branches in this git push?

Question

What would possibly cause a \'git push\' to try and commit to two branches? I have my own branch I\'m working on, which is on the shared repo... and a master branch. Right now I

Answer 1

If you want to push only current branch, you can use "git push origin HEAD", or perhaps even "git push HEAD" (with modern git).

The default behavior if no refspec for push (you have defined refspec for fetch in your config, but not for push) is to push matching refs. From git-push(1):

git push [...] [ ...]

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The special refspec : (or +: to allow non-fast forward updates) directs git to push "matching" branches: for every branch that exists on the local side, the remote side is updated if a branch of the same name already exists on the remote side. This is the default operation mode if no explicit refspec is found (that is neither on the command line nor ...