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

git push -u 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: