How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?

Question

I want to be able to do the following:

1. Create a local branch based on some other (remote or local) branch (via git branch or git checkout

Answer 1

To create a new branch by branching off from an existing branch

git checkout -b 

and then push this new branch to repository using

git push -u origin 

This creates and pushes all local commits to a newly created remote branch origin/