How to connect local branch to remote branch?

[RickQuintaluce]

I'm just getting started with git and github so most likely this is me not understanding something.

I have created a new local branch; at the same time I have created its remote counterpart on github. The two repos are already connected. How do I connect the two branches, within Gitnuro?

I have used git push -u remote_repo local_branch:remote_branch in the local repo terminal but I would like to know how to do it using the Gitnuro GUI.

Thanks in advance!

[JetpackDuba]

Hello,

It's quite an unusual workflow. Instead of creating the branch in both places, I'd recommend creating your local branch and then pushing, it will automatically create the branch in the remote repository.

In the Git CLI it would be slightly simplier than your version (you would have to write this the first time pushing): git push -u origin branch_name. In Gitnuro just clicking push will handle that for you.

If you still want to simply connect both branches, you can right click in your local branch to open the contextual menu and click on "Change default upstream branch" (if nothing shows up, make sure to fetch your changes from CLI, as fetch is a bit broken in the latest release). After picking the branch, you can push normally.

I hope I've explained myself properely.

[RickQuintaluce]

Thanks for the quick reply! I actually tried to do just that, creating my local branch and then just pushing. This however led to the notification "Push failed, origin: not found" message. Creating the new remote branch was how I avoided the problem.

Also I should mention, my remote repo isn't called origin; despite that the warning message says "origin: not found" - maybe it has something to do with that?

[JetpackDuba]

Ah, yes, by default JGit expects at least to have one repository called "origin". It's the default behavior, perhaps could be fixed. Adding it again with the name "origin" should fix it. The UX around that is not the best unfortunately.