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Create a local tracking branch of your heroku deployment
Assuming you have remote branch called heroku/master, start by creating a local tracking branch
called heroku.
> git checkout -b heroku -t heroku/master
This will checkout the last revision you deployed to Heroku.
Now tell git to push the heroku branch to heroku/master
> git config remote.heroku.push heroku:master
You can then make changes on this branch independently of your master
and when you're ready to deploy to heroku just do this on your local
heroku branch
> git commit -m "Some minor bug fixing"
> git push heroku heroku:master
... Will deploy ...
You can work on features on master:
> git checkout master
> # hack away
> git commit -a -m "My awesome new feature"
To deploy to Heroku
> git checkout heroku
> git merge master
> git push heroku heroku:master
You can use the same technique to have multiple heroku apps for the one codebase,
e.g. a staging and production version.
@walteryu
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walteryu commented Sep 4, 2011

Thanks for posting this! I working on new features for a production application and wish to deploy without merging for master so this helps me out a lot!

@studgeek
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studgeek commented Mar 8, 2012

Since you mapped the branches in your git.config call (line 10) I don't think you need the branch mapping in your push (line 30), right? See https://gist.github.com/2002048

@itnamerica
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This is an amazing fix if your local master branch is corrupted after merge conflict, and to get a fresh replica of the working remote. Thanks!

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abhi8893 commented Jul 3, 2021

Thanks a lot! I was thinking along these lines just initially started on Heroku today and wanted a separate heroku branch.

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