How do you create a remote Git branch?

Question

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.

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Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

As stated in the previous answers,

git push <remote-name> <local-branch-name>:<remote-branch-name>

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 <local-branch-name> <remote-name>/<remote-branch-name>

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

How to do through Source Tree

 1: Open SourceTree, click on Repository -> 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)