在 GitLab 中，如何将更改推送到与非主分支不同的远程分支？

Question

My branch dev_match_test is an update to the branch origin/dev .

I want to send my local changes of the dev_match_test branch to the remote repository,

such that the merge request to merge dev_match_test into dev could be later approved.

git status command tells that:

On branch dev_match_test
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/dev' by 22 commits.
    (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

but git push returns an error:

fatal: The upstream branch of your current branch does not match
the name of your current branch.  To push to the upstream branch
on the remote, use

    git push origin HEAD:dev

To push to the branch of the same name on the remote, use

    git push origin dev_match_test

Trying both suggested options gives no good:

git push origin HEAD:dev

returns an error

remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project.

I suspect it's because I'm trying to push changes to dev and I don't have permission for that. Instead I want to push to dev_match_test .

git push origin dev_match_test

just returns a message Everything up-to-date and does nothing.

Question : how to push local changes to the dev_match_test branch?

Answer 1

What might be easiest is to simply make a new branch from the current branch you're on, push to remote, then merge the new branch into dev.

1. Make a new branch from current branch:

git checkout -b newBranchName

2. Push to remote:

git push -u origin newBranchName

3. In GitLab, create a Merge Request for newBranchName into dev

Please note this does not fix your branch dev_match_test not properly pushing to remote. To solve that, more information would be helpful. I suspect that the branch dev_match_test is set up to track from origin/dev instead of origin/dev_match_test. If you could send the output of git remote -v (please hide URLs) that could be helpful.

Answer 2

If you get the message "everything up-to-date", that means that all your local commits have already been pushed to the remote in the past.

Simply create a new merge request in GitLab and select the proper target ( dev ) and source ( dev_match_test ) branch and you should be all set.