How do I push a local Git branch to master branch in the remote?

I have a branch called develop in my local repo, and I want to make sure that when I push it to origin it's merged with the origin/master. Currently, when I push it's added to a remote develop branch.

How can I do this?

6 Answers

$ git push origin develop:master 

or, more generally

$ git push <remote> <local branch name>:<remote branch to push into> 

As people mentioned in the comments you probably don't want to do that... The answer from mipadi is absolutely correct if you know what you're doing.

I would say:

git checkout master git pull # to update the state to the latest remote master state git merge develop # to bring changes to local master from your develop branch git push origin master # push current HEAD to remote master branch 

you can install the git tool and it can help with merging branch to master. I created a branch in RStudio, worked on it, pushed changes to github. Then when I wanted to merge I opened this git GUI tool, navigated to the folder with my repository, then merged the branch to master. I opened RStudio to check if the changes had happened, then pushed to github from RStudio.

You can also do it this way to reference the previous branch implicitly:

git checkout mainline git pull git merge - git push 

As an extend to @Eugene's answer another version which will work to push code from local repo to master/develop branch .

Switch to branch ‘master’:

$ git checkout master 

Merge from local repo to master:

$ git merge --no-ff FEATURE/<branch_Name> 

Push to master:

$ git push 

Follow the below steps for push the local repo into Master branch

$ git status