How do you create a remote Git branch

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I created a local branch which I want to  push  upstream  There is a similar question here on Stack Overflow on how to track a newly created remote branch    However  my workflow is slightly different  First I want to create a local branch  and I will only push it upstream when I m satisfied and want to share my branch    How would I do that   my google searches did not seem to come up with anything   How would I tell my colleagues to pull it from the upstream repository    UPDATE With Git 2 0 there is a simpler answer I have written below  https   stackoverflow com a 27185855 109305

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If you want to create a branch from the current branch

git checkout -b {your_local_branch_name}

you want a branch from a remote branch, you can try

git checkout -b {your_local_branch_name} origin/<remote_branch_name>

If you are done with changes you can add the file.

git add -A or git add <each_file_names>

Then do a commit locally

git commit -m 'your commit message'

When you want to push to remote repo

git push -u origin <your_local_branch_name>

All together will be

git checkout -b bug_fixes

or If you want to create a branch from a remote branch say development

git checkout -b bug_fixes origin/development

You can push to the branch to remote repo by

git push -u origin bug_fixes

Anytime you want to update your branch from any other branch say master.

git pull origin master.

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Easiest Solution    Drumm Roll    git version 2 10 1  Apple Git-78   1  git checkout -b localBranchNameThatDoesNotExistInRemote  2  Do your changes  and do a git commit   3  git push origin localBranchNameThatDoesNotExistInRemote --force   N B  - The branch you just created in your local environment  and the remote non-existing branch where you are trying to push  must have the same name

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I have used two ways to create branch  If you are using TortoiseGit follow these steps -  1 Create Branch using TortoiseGit          Right click on your project     TortoiseGit     Create Branch     write the name of branch and select the base branch then press ok       2 Push the branch           Right click on your project     TortoiseGit     push     click ok      3 Switch to new branch           Right click on your project     TortoiseGit     Switch Checkout     select newly created branch and press ok       If you are using command prompt follow these steps -  1 Create branch using command prompt           git checkout -b new branch name      2 Push the branch           git push origin new branch name      3 Switch to new branch  it will already switched to new branch name otherwise you can use            git checkout new branch name

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I ve solved this by adding this into my bash    profile   function gitb     git checkout -b  1  amp  amp  git push --set-upstream origin  1     Then to start up a new local   remote branch  I write   gitb feature mynewbranch  This creates the branch and does the first push  not just to setup tracking  so that later git pull and git push work without extra arguments   but actually confirming that the target repo doesn t already have such branch in it

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I use this and it is pretty handy   git config --global alias mkdir   git checkout -b  1  git status  git push -u origin  1  exit        Usage  git mkdir NEW BRANCH   You don t even need git status  maybe  I just want to make sure everything is going well     You can have BOTH the LOCAL and REMOTE branch with a single command

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As stated in the previous answers    git push  lt remote-name gt   lt local-branch-name gt   lt remote-branch-name gt    is enough for pushing a local branch   Your colleagues  can pull all remote branches  including new ones  with this command   git remote update   Then  to make changes on the branch  the usual flow   git checkout -b  lt local-branch-name gt   lt remote-name gt   lt remote-branch-name gt

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How to do through Source Tree  1  Open SourceTree  click on Repository - gt  Checkout  2  Click on Create New Branch  3  Select the branch where you want to get code for new branch   4  Give your branch name  5  Push the branch   by click on Push-button

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git push -u  lt remote-name gt   lt branch-name gt  doesn t work if the newly created branch isn t spawned from the same repo  i e  if you haven t created the new branch using git checkout -b new branch  then this will not work   For eg  I had cloned two different repositories locally and I had to copy repo2 branch1 to  repo1  and then push it too   This link helped me push my local branch  cloned from another repo  to my remote repo

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Create the branch on your local machine and switch in this branch       git checkout -b  name of your new branch    Push the branch on github      git push origin  name of your new branch    When you want to commit something in your branch  be sure to be in your branch   You can see all branches created by using      git branch   Which will show      approval messages   master   master clean   Add a new remote for your branch      git remote add  name of your remote     Push changes from your commit into your branch      git push origin  name of your remote    Update your branch when the original branch from official repository has been updated      git fetch  name of your remote    Then you need to apply to merge changes  if your branch is derivated from develop you need to do      git merge  name of your remote  develop   Delete a branch on your local filesystem      git branch -d  name of your new branch    To force the deletion of local branch on your filesystem      git branch -D  name of your new branch    Delete the branch on github      git push origin   name of your new branch    Here All Information  Other Existing project

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I know this question is well answered  but just wanted to list the steps I take to create a new branch  myNewBranch  and push to remote   origin  in my case  and set up tracking  Consider this the  TL DR  version       create new branch and checkout that branch git checkout -b myNewBranch   now push branch to remote  git push origin myNewBranch   set up the new branch to track remote branch from origin git branch --set-upstream-to origin myNewBranch myNewBranch

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Heres an example I only have two branches that were local first  origin and mobile-test  Nothing for me worked until I used this in command line to actually show my updated files in a remote branch  git push --set-upstream origin mobile-test

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Now with git  you can just type  when you are in the correct branch  git push --set-upstream origin  lt remote-branch-name   and git create for you the origin branch

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Simple Git 2 0  solution  As of Git 2 0  the behavior has become simpler  You can configure git with push default   current to make life easier  I added this so now I can just push a new branch upstream with   git push -u  -u will track remote branch of the same name  Now with this configuration  you will auto-guess the remote reference to git push  From git config documentation   push default Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is explicitly given  push default   current - push the current branch to update a branch with the same name on the receiving end  Works in both central and non-central workflows   For me  this is a good simplification of my day-to-day Git workflow  The configuration setting takes care of the  usual  use case where you add a branch locally and want to create it remotely  Also  I can just as easily create local branches from remotes by just doing git co remote branch name  as opposed to using --set-upstream-to flag   I know this question and the accepted answers are rather old  but the behavior has changed so that now configuration options exist to make your workflow simpler  To add to your global Git configuration  run this on the command line    git config --global push default current

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Create a new branch locally based on the current branch   git checkout -b newbranch   Commit any changes as you normally would   Then  push it upstream   git push -u origin HEAD   This is a shortcut to push the current branch to a branch of the same name on origin and track it so that you don t need to specify origin HEAD in the future

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If you wanna actually just create remote branch without having the local one  you can do it like this   git push origin HEAD refs heads foo   It pushes whatever is your HEAD to branch foo that did not exist on the remote

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Creating a local branch from an existing branch  can be master  develop  any-other-branch       git checkout -b branch name   Push this to remote     git push -u remote name local branch name remote branch name   Here    -u   sets the upstream branch remote name   git sets the name by default to be  origin  when it creates the repository  This can however be changed to a different arbitrary name  local branch name   is the name of the local branch to be pushed  remote branch name   is the name of the remote branch that we want to be created on remote    If we remove the local and remote branch names  it will have the format      git push -u remote name branch name   This will push the local branch to remote and with the same name as the local branch branch name  The local branch will be tracking the remote branch as well

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First  you must create your branch locally  git checkout -b your branch   After that  you can work locally in your branch  when you are ready to share the branch  push it  The next command push the branch to the remote repository origin and tracks it  git push -u origin your branch   Teammates can reach your branch  by doing   git fetch git checkout origin your branch   You can continue working in the branch and pushing whenever you want without passing arguments to git push  argumentless git push will push the master to remote master  your branch local to remote your branch  etc      git push   Teammates can push to your branch by doing commits and then push explicitly      work     git commit     work     git commit git push origin HEAD refs heads your branch   Or tracking the branch to avoid the arguments to git push  git checkout --track -b your branch origin your branch     work     git commit     work     git commit git push

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First you create the branch locally   git checkout -b your branch   And then to create the branch remotely    git push --set-upstream origin your branch   Note  This works on the latests versions of git     git --version git version 2 3 0   Cheers

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If you have used --single-branch to clone the current branch  use this to create a new branch from the current  git checkout -b  lt new-branch-name gt  git push -u origin  lt new-branch-name gt  git remote set-branches origin --add  lt new-branch-name gt  git fetch

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Here is how you do it in eclipse through Egit   Go the  quot Git Repository Exploring quot  view and expand the git project to which you want to create a branch  Under Branches - gt  Local    select the branch for which you want to create the branch   In my case I selected master    you can select another branch if you wish     then right click and click on Create Branch option    and select the checkout this project option and then click the finish button   Now from the project explorer select the project    right click then Team - gt  Push Branch    A new remote branch will be created  You can give the name of the branch to your colleagues so that they can pull it

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Just wanted to add that while   git checkout -b  branchName    Creates a new branch  it also checks out that branch   makes it your current branch  If  for some reason  all you want to do is snap off a branch but not make it your current branch  then you would use the following command   git branch  branchName    In the first command   checkout  makes said branch your current branch  and the  -b  means  this branch doesn t exist yet  so make it for me

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Quick Answer  You can do it in 2 steps  1  Use the checkout for create the local branch  git checkout -b yourBranchName  2  Use the push command to autocreate the branch and send the code to the remote repository  git push -u origin yourBranchName   There are multiple ways to do this but I think that this way is really simple

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First  you create your branch locally  git checkout -b  lt branch-name gt    Create a new branch and check it out  The remote branch is automatically created when you push it to the remote server  So when you feel ready for it  you can do  git push  lt remote-name gt   lt branch-name gt    Where  lt remote-name gt  is typically origin  the name which git gives to the remote you cloned from  Your colleagues would then just pull that branch  and it s automatically created locally  Note however that formally  the format is  git push  lt remote-name gt   lt local-branch-name gt   lt remote-branch-name gt   But when you omit one  it assumes both branch names are the same  Having said this  as a word of caution  do not make the critical mistake of specifying only   lt remote-branch-name gt   with the colon   or the remote branch will be deleted  So that a subsequent git pull will know what to do  you might instead want to use  git push --set-upstream  lt remote-name gt   lt local-branch-name gt    As described below  the --set-upstream option sets up an upstream branch   For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed  add upstream  tracking  reference  used by argument-less git-pull 1  and other commands

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