push master, or push all?

per_qadb

Hi, a newbie question: Following the instruction on how to set up a local repo and then get it over to Bitbucket, I think I managed to successfully do the command:

$ git push -u origin master

That 's the last of two commands I pasted from the Bitbucket Overview page. But maybe I should only have done the 'remote add origin' thing (the first command)?

Then , the instruction says I should do:

$ git push -u origin --all

But is this necessary? Do I really need to push twice? I don't know the difference between "master" and "all". Tell me if I did anything wrong here.

Steven Whitman

The instructions on the overview page assume you are only pushing one branch, master.  If you have a repo that contains many branches then you need to push the all with the 'git push --mirror origin' to push all refs under refs/ (which may include but is not limited to refs/heads/, refs/remotes/, and refs/tags/). See the documentation for git push for other options.  For example you could also do a 'git push --all origin' to push just branches and not tags.