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Asked: 2026-06-18T07:53:43+00:00

I have a project hosted on Heroku and it’s gotten to the point where

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I have a project hosted on Heroku and it’s gotten to the point where I want to make an alternate test server (so I can test Heroku workers without messing up production).

I have already set up my main Heroku remote running my trunk and a Heroku-dev remote on which I wish to run an alternate branch.

My problem is that since my alternate branch isn’t master, Heroku won’t build it.

$ git push heroku-dev test
counting objects ...
...
Pushed to non-master branch, skipping build.
To git@heroku.com:example-dev.git
* [new branch]      test -> test

Switching this build to master is not an option at the moment. Obviously one option is to create a whole new git repo that’s a clone of my test branch, but that doesn’t sound very ideal.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can push an alternative branch to Heroku using Git.

    git push heroku-dev test:master

    This pushes your local test branch to the remote’s master branch (on Heroku).

    Comment from @Brian Armstrong:

    Worth noting also, when you’re ready to go back to master you need to do

    git push -f heroku master:master
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