Can I use git push origin master:myBranch to push code I modified in master branch to my branch?

Question

Can I use git push origin master:myBranch to push code I modified in master branch to my branch? Will this affect the master branch?

Answer 1

You can, and that won't affect your local or remote master branch.

But it is better to create myBranch locally (from your current master ) and push it to its remote tracking equivalent:

git switch -c myBranch
git push -u origin myBranch

Next time you are committing on myBranch , a simple git push will be enough to push the local myBranch to the remote myBranch .

Answer 2

What I did is checkout to myBranch and do a "git merge master", which merge the up to date master to my branch, and then do git commit and git push to push the code