Publishing branches with GitHub for Windows fails with no upstream branch

Question

When I try to publish a new local branch using Github for Windows the process fails without an error message. Opening the shell and using 'git push' results in the error:

fatal: The current branch local-branch-name has no upstream branch
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

    git push --set-upstream origin local-branch-name

If I cut and paste this command the push goes forward and I can use the GUI for all other pushes and pulls. I have been using GitHub for Windows for more than a year and this just started. I recently upgraded and I am running version Great Dane 2.6.4.1. I don't know if that has any relevance or not. I am not seeing a lot of reports or really any reports of this type of issue.

Did I set a flag somewhere that is causing this? Did a GitHub default change? what could be causing this behaviour? (I fully expect this to be a PEBKAC issue I just don't know what I did).

Answer 1

You either need to call a specific upstream or set a default upstream setting.

 $ git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master
 $ git remote -v
       origin   https://github.com/mjbrender/simple-blog.git (fetch)
       origin   https://github.com/mjbrender/simple-blog.git (push)

If you don't have one set yet:

$ git remote add upstream [email protected]/some-maintainer/some-project.git

You can keep yourself from having to this again after a project clone with this:

$ git config --global push.default simple