Good point; I'd missed that someone taught git a smarter "spelling" for this task. IIRC, `git push -u origin HEAD` didn't used to automatically create a branch

Good point; I'd missed that someone taught git a smarter "spelling" for this task. IIRC, `git push -u origin HEAD` didn't used to automatically create a branch of the same name on that remote -- the explicit colon notion was required. I've had this little script around for a long time...