You can configure `git push` to push just the current branch to its configured remote, by setting 'push.default' to 'upstream'. `git config --global push.defau

You can configure `git push` to push just the current branch to its configured remote, by setting 'push.default' to 'upstream'. `git config --global push.default upstream` The relevant docs (droplr'd, since you can't anchor-link into the online manpages): http://d.pr/Rlqn http://d.pr/Rlqn