Git pushing to remote branch

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I tried to follow this post but got confused rather than getting my problem solved    Here is the scenario    I have created a branch like git checkout -b  lt branch name gt   I then worked on some changes and did   git add   git commit -m  comment    Now all those changes are in my uncommitted local  lt branch name gt  branch  What i want to do is to push these changes upstream but i want to push it to a branch which doesn t exist e g    lt branch name gt  test  I don t want to push it to my  lt branch name gt   How can i do so

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git push --set-upstream origin  lt branch name gt  test  --set-upstream sets the association between your local branch and the remote  You only have to do it the first time  On subsequent pushes you can just do   git push  If you don t have origin set yet  use   git remote add origin  lt repository url gt  then retry the above command

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First  let s note that git push  wants  two more arguments and will make them up automatically if you don t supply them   The basic command is therefore git push remote refspec   The remote part is usually trivial as it s almost always just the word origin   The trickier part is the refspec   Most commonly  people write a branch name here  git push origin master  for instance   This uses your local branch to push to a branch of the same name1 on the remote  creating it if necessary   But it doesn t have to be just a branch name   In particular  a refspec has two colon-separated parts   For git push  the part on the left identifies what to push 2 and the part on the right identifies the name to give to the remote   The part on the left in this case would be branch name and the part on the right would be branch name test   For instance   git push origin foo foo test   As you are doing the push  you can tell your git push to set your branch s upstream name at the same time  by adding -u to the git push options   Setting the upstream name makes your git save the foo test  or whatever  name  so that a future git push with no arguments  while you re on the foo branch  can try to push to foo test on the remote  git also saves the remote  origin in this case  so that you don t have to enter that either    You need only pass -u once  it basically just runs git branch --set-upstream-to for you    If you pass -u again later  it re-runs the upstream-setting  changing it as directed  or you can run git branch --set-upstream-to yourself    However  if your git is 2 0 or newer  and you have not set any special configuration  you will run into the same kind of thing that had me enter footnote 1 above  push default will be set to simple  which will refuse to push because the upstream s name differs from your own local name   If you set push default to upstream  git will stop complaining   but the simplest solution is just to rename your local branch first  so that the local and remote names match    What settings to set  and or whether to rename your branch  are up to you      1More precisely  git consults your remote remote push setting to derive the upstream half of the refspec   If you haven t set anything here  the default is to use the same name   2This doesn t have to be a branch name   For instance  you can supply HEAD  or a commit hash  here   If you use something other than a branch name  you may have to spell out the full refs heads branch on the right  though  it depends on what names are already on the remote

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You can push your local branch to a new remote branch like so   git push origin master test    Assuming origin is your remote  master is your local branch name and test is the name of the new remote branch  you wish to create    If at the same time you want to set up your local branch to track the newly created remote branch  you can do so with -u  on newer versions of Git  or --set-upstream  so   git push -u origin master test   or  git push --set-upstream origin master test      will create a new remote branch  named test  in remote repository origin  based on your local master  and setup your local master to track it

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Simply push this branch to a different branch name   git push -u origin localBranch remoteBranch

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With modern Git versions  the command to use would be   git push -u origin  lt branch name test gt    This will automatically set the branch name to track from remote and push in one go

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