HEAD points to the top of the current branch. git can obtain the branch name from that. So it’s the same as:
git push origin CURRENT_BRANCH_NAME
but you don’t have to remember/type the current branch name. Also it prevents you from pushing to the wrong remote branch by accident.
If you want to push a different branch than the current one the command will not work.
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