How to create a new remote branch with EGit?

Question

Let's say I have an Eclipse Project which uses versioning control with EGit and is connected with a remote repository git@myrepo.com:git2013. In my project, under the local branch newstuff, I create and change some files. Now, I want to push this to a remote branch named newstuff in my remote repository. But my remote repository only holds a branch master.

How do I create a new remote branch called newstuff?

PS: Please do not answer with command-line git commands; describe how to do it in EGit.

Answer 1

In EGit 3.2, there is now a dedicated wizard for this use case:

1. Select Team → Push Branch... in the context menu

2. In the wizard, you can change which remote you want to push to and whether pulling on this branch should merge or rebase:

   

3. The next page will show a confirmation before doing the push, you can then finish the wizard.

After that, you can simply use Push to Upstream when the branch is checked out to push to the remote branch, or Pull to get the changes from the remote branch.

Answer 2

You can follow the section "Configuring upstream push " in order to push a given branch:

Pushing a branch which doesn't exist yet on a remote repo will create it on said remote.

You can specify the refspec you want to use, or use Push ref specification.

That above would push all local branches.

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Update December 2013 (Egit 3.2): as mentioned in robinst's answer (upvoted), you now have:

Push Branch / Initial Push wizard simplifies pushing a branch and also allows upstream configuration for new branches created by the push operation.
Improve UI of upstream configuration when creating a branch: