Create a remote branch on GitHub

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In SVN I have at least two ways to create a branch   svn cp  home me localcheckout trunk  home me localcheckout branches newbranch svn cp http   server trunk http   server branches newbranch   The first creates it locally then I have to commit the whole branch  The second creates it on the server   The benefit of the second is that I can svn switch my local trunk  make a few changes to some files and commit just a few KB   Is it possible to achieve that using Git  Is there a way of creating a remote branch on GitHub then pull them to my local repo   The reason that I ask is that I am trying to push a couple of KB to a new remote branch from master using my phones internet connection but when I push it wants to push about 400 MB      Writing objects   22   54080 245586   86 74 MiB   13 KiB s   See Git - pushing a remote branch for a large project is really slow for a similar question

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Git is supposed to understand what files already exist on the server, unless you somehow made a huge difference to your tree and the new changes need to be sent.

To create a new branch with a copy of your current state

git checkout -b new_branch #< create a new local branch with a copy of your code
git push origin new_branch #< pushes to the server

Can you please describe the steps you did to understand what might have made your repository need to send that much to the server.

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Before creating a new branch always the best practice is to have the latest of repo in your local machine  Follow these steps for error free branch creation    1    git branch  check which branches exist and which one is currently active  prefixed with     This helps you avoid creating duplicate confusing branch name   2    git branch  lt new branch gt   creates new branch   3    git checkout new branch  4    git add    After making changes in the current branch   5    git commit -m  type commit msg here   6    git checkout master  switch to master branch so that merging with new branch can be done   7    git merge new branch  starts merging   8    git push origin master  push to the remote server    I referred this blog and I found it to be a cleaner approach

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It looks like github has a simple UI for creating branches   I opened the branch drop-down and it prompts me to  Find or create a branch        Type the name of your new branch  then click the  create  button that appears   To retrieve your new branch from github  use the standard git fetch command     I m not sure this will help your underlying problem  though  since the underlying data being pushed to the server  the commit objects  is the same no matter what branch it s being pushed to

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