how to push to develop branch not master?

Question

Whenever I trying pushing with the following command the pull request that will be created will always be targeted at master branch

git push origin my_sample_branch

I already tried setting my upstream with

git push --set-upstream origin develop

but I still push to master branch. how come?

Answer 1

Try it with this command-syntax :

git push <remote> <local_branch>:<remote_branch_name>

In your example like:

git push origin my_sample_branch:develop

Answer 2

Execute the following command:
1.switch branch first
git switch my_sample_branch
2.set the upstream branch
git branch -u origin/develop
3. push directly, it will push to the upstream branch automatically
git push

By the way, you can check the upstream branch by command git branch -vv

Answer 3

Try this:

git push origin your_local_branch : your_remote_branch

Worked for me