Developer confession.

I always git push a new branch even though I know it will error as there's no upstream, just to copy the full git push with set upstream arguments from the error message.

I always push along with setting the upstream even though it might have already been set. The alias 'gpohu' for 'git push origin HEAD -u' for the win!

@LMagnus, glad I'm not the only one

# git remote add origin <URL/SSH>
# git checkout -b feature/yay
# git push -u origin feature/yay

I've been doing this way to long to be able to know this from memory.

@C0D4 I know there's better ways. I just don't do them.

Git is so confusing

@PaszaVonPomiot not really, once you understand the structure and stop thinking its a centralised VCS like Subversion.

If you want something truly fucked, use any Microsoft product for revision control. Visual Source Safe would be an excellent place to start

Another solution: Create your branch on the remote (with Jira for example), then git fetch and checkout the branch you created. No more hassle needed :p

I do it too. But always ponder... if it’s smart enough to tell me what I should do, why not make it a y/n option?

@McDave 100% agree!

Tab completion works for me

Omg dude, just make alias
`pushu = push -u origin HEAD`