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Goal

Publish feature/search to origin and make it track origin/feature/search.

A brand-new branch has no upstream, so a bare git push doesn't know where to send it — and Git tells you the exact command to fix that.

git push -u origin <branch> creates the branch on the server and sets it as your branch's upstream (-u is short for --set-upstream). After that, plain git push and git pull just work. This is how you open a pull request.

Try it

Push the search branch and set its upstream. git branch -vv shows what each branch tracks.

Go to the terminal

Hint

git push -u origin feature/search.

Show a solution

git push -u origin feature/search

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