How to push local changes to a remote Git repository on Bitbucket

Use git push origin master instead.

You have a repository locally and the initial git push is "pushing" to it. It's not necessary to do so (as it is local) and it shows everything as up-to-date. git push origin master specifies a a remote repository (origin) and the branch located there (master).

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This is a safety measure to avoid pushing branches that are not ready to be published. Loosely speaking, by executing "git push", only local branches that already exist on the server with the same name will be pushed, or branches that have been pushed using the localbranch:remotebranch syntax.

To push all local branches to the remote repository, use --all:

git push REMOTENAME --all
git push --all

or specify all branches you want to push:

git push REMOTENAME master exp-branch-a anotherbranch bugfix

In addition, it's useful to add -u to the "git push" command, as this will tell you if your local branch is ahead or behind the remote branch. This is shown when you run "git status" after a git fetch.


I'm with Git downloaded from https://git-scm.com/ and set up ssh follow to the answer for instructions https://stackoverflow.com/a/26130250/4058484.

Once the generated public key is verified in my Bitbucket account, and by referring to the steps as explaned on http://www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archives/2518 I found that just 'git push' is working:

git clone https://[email protected]/me/test.git
cd test
cp -R ../dummy/* .
git add .
git pull origin master 
git commit . -m "my first git commit" 
git config --global push.default simple
git push

Shell respond are as below:

$ git push
Counting objects: 39, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (39/39), done.
Writing objects: 100% (39/39), 2.23 MiB | 5.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 39 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://[email protected]/me/test.git 992b294..93835ca  master -> master

It even works for to push on merging master to gh-pages in GitHub

git checkout gh-pages
git merge master
git push