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

User · Answer

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 <new_branch> (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.

User · Answer

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   lt  create a new local branch with a copy of your code git push origin new branch   lt  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

User · Answer

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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