The Heroku system for managing different app’s environments is difficult to understand for me at first. The concept of having different branches tracking different remote repository is new. But, overtime, as I use the service, I’m kind of familiar with it.

The confusion for me is because an asymmetry behaviour of Git branching system itself. As written in this post, a simple git pull and git push will behave differently regarding remote tracking branch. You can just read it in the blog post.

My point is, dear future self, it will helpful for you if you set the push.default config to upstream (previously tracking). With this command, everytime you do git push, it will automatically push the upstream branch. For example, if you’re on the staging branch, git push will update repository in staging remote master branch. Simple, right?

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$ git config push.default tracking
$ git push

You should always follow the official documentation for this specific Heroku setup. Hej då!

Reference:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/multiple-environments https://longair.net/blog/2011/02/27/an-asymmetry-between-git-pull-and-git-push/