git push to remote branch

Question

Folks,

I had cloned a repo. I created a branch out of it to work on a feature by issuing the following command:

git branch fix78

then I

Answer 1

git push origin master:fix78 pushes the local master to a remote branch called fix78. You wanted to push the local branch fix78, which has the same syntax but without the master:

You can fix it by doing git push origin :fix78 to delete the remote branch and then git push origin fix78 to push your local branch to the remote repo.