How to use a different branch name when pushing to remote repo

Question

Say I added a new remote repo under my project folder by:

git remote add origin2 ADDRESS_OF_NEW_REMOTE_REPO

then, I start to push my code to my new remote repo. Locally, my branch name is "develop", I want to push to my new remote repo with a different branch name, say "production", can I simply do this by command:

git push origin2 production 

though locally, I am under branch "develop" ? What is the correct way to do this? and what potential problems could be caused by doing this?

Answer 1

$ git push yourremotename local_branch:remote_branch

(yourremotename here is remote name, often "origin", "github", "heroku" or similar)

So for you something like:

$ git push origin2 develop:production

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For the most cases I think I would just rename the local branch to avoid confusion, if it's possible.

$ git branch -m develop production

This way it is easier to keep track as to what branch references which.

I understand though that for example Heroku would only deploy from master branch, so sometimes you do want to have the names separate.