Automate Upstream Branch Creation (Challenge)

Introduction

In a collaborative project, it is common to have multiple developers working on different branches of the same repository. When a developer pushes their changes to a branch that does not exist on the remote repository, the push will fail. This is where upstream branch creation comes in handy. By enabling automatic upstream branch creation on push, developers can avoid the hassle of manually creating the branch on the remote repository.

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Automate Upstream Branch Creation

As a developer, you want to automate the process of creating upstream branches on push to avoid the hassle of manually creating the branch on the remote repository.

Tasks

To complete the challenge, you will use the Git repository git-playground in your GitHub account to automatically create an upstream branch at push time from a fork of https://github.com/labex-labs/git-playground.git.

1. Clone the repository, navigate to the directory and configure the identity.
2. Enable automatic upstream branch creation on push.
3. Create and switch to a branch called new-feature, add the hello.txt file and write "hello,world" in it, add it to the staging area and commit it with the message "Added hello.txt".
4. Push your changes to a new branch called new-feature, which does not exist in the remote repository.

This is the result after completing the challenge:

Summary

By enabling automatic upstream branch creation on push, developers can avoid the hassle of manually creating the branch on the remote repository. This challenge has demonstrated how to enable this feature using the git config command and how to push changes to a new branch that does not exist on the remote repository.