Question

The problem I’ve had is that my fingers automatically type git push origin master. If I instead am working on new-branch and was meaning to type git push origin new-branch and there are unpushed changes on master they will be pushed accidentally. Is there some way to prevent this so that I can only push to and from the current branch?

Answer 1

You can just create an alias named, say, gitpushcurrent, pointing to git push origin $(git branch | grep "*" | sed "s/* //").

Then retrain your fingers to type automatically gitpushcurrent instead of git push origin master. Thus you don’t need to think what is the current branch.