How to push to a different remote branch with Git

Published: 19 February 2025

I often find myself commit changes to main that I should of put in a different branch. This is especially difficult when using any of the git forges that have main protected.

git push origin main:feature-branch

The above is fairly self-explanatory. After we've commited our changes to the local main branch, we'll push those to the remote feature-branch.

From here you can open a merge request to merge feature-branch into the remote main.