ensure local branch commits/pushes to right remote branch

Question

When I run "git remote show guarddog", I am expecting to see something like this:

  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    guarddoglocal pushes to master

However, this is actually what I do see:

git remote show guarddog
Username for 'github.com': 
Password for 'github.com': 
* remote guarddog
  Fetch URL: https://github.com/guarddog/guarddog.git
  Push  URL: https://github.com/guarddog/guarddog.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branch:
    master tracked
  Local branch configured for 'git pull':
    guarddoglocal merges with remote master

Clearly, guarddoglocal is not configured for git push to guarddog/master.

This is what I done so far:

git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/usera/usera.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/usera/usera.git (push)

git remote add guarddog https://github.com/guarddog/guarddog.git
git remote -v
guarddog    https://github.com/guarddog/guarddog.git (fetch)
guarddog    https://github.com/guarddog/guarddog.git (push)
origin          https://github.com/usera/usera.git (fetch)
origin          https://github.com/usera/usera.git (push)

git status
# On branch useralocal
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   modified:   app/assets/javascripts/application.js.erb

git push guarddog useralocal:master

git checkout -b guarddoglocal guarddog/master

git branch
* guarddoglocal
  useralocal

git status
# On branch guarddoglocal
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   modified:   app/assets/javascripts/application.js.erb

git remote show guarddog
Username for 'github.com': 
Password for 'github.com': 
* remote guarddog
  Fetch URL: https://github.com/guarddog/guarddog.git
  Push  URL: https://github.com/guarddog/guarddog.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branch:
    master tracked
      Local branch configured for 'git pull':
        guarddoglocal merges with remote master

As you can see, the pull looks reasonable, but the default push does not. When I push on branch guarddoglocal, I need to ensure it pushes to the guarddog remote repository.

Trying something like this doesn't change anything:

git push -u guarddoglocal guarddog:master

Answer 1

I think you are using the -u option wrongly

git push -u guarddog      guarddoglocal:master
            ^^^^^^^^      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
            remote name   local branch  remote branch

while in the guarddoglocal branch will configure it to track the master branch on the guarddog remote.