Pull from a Branch, and push to another

Question

I have a 'master' branch, and a 'bugfix' branch. this bugfix branch needs to be always updated with master commits, but i need to push to its own branch.

i tried

git branch -f --track bugfix origin/master

and tried set-upstream too but seems to set both, pull and push from/to 'master'.

Answer 1

If you pull the remote master branch into master by doing a git pull you can push it to the remote bugfix branch like this:

git push origin master:bugfix

That is assuming the name of your remote is origin.

I hope this is what you meant.

Answer 2

How about

mkdir -p git
cd git
git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git
cd repo
git branch bugfix
git checkout bugfix
git push origin bugfix
git checkout master

git branch --set-upstream-to=bugfix
echo 'hallo' > hallo.txt
git add hallo.txt
git commit -m 'lolz'
git config push.default upstream
git push

So it will push master to origin/bugfix and pull origin/bugfix to bugfix.