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.

Howeve

Answer 1

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,

1. -u : sets the upstream branch
2. 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.
3. local_branch_name : is the name of the local branch to be pushed.
4. 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.