How to push from one branch to another and checkout?

Question

I am trying to implement the setup outlined here http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto but with one difference. On my local repository I want to use a branch different to mast

Answer 1

If the local branch is called "demo" and you want to push to branch called "master" on the remote called "web", then do the following:

git push web demo:master

If you want to merge from the "master" branch on the remote "web" into your current branch, you can do the following:

git fetch web
git merge web/master