How can I push my changes to a remote branch

Question

I am on a master branch 'master' and I have 1 commit ahead I want to create a new remote branch called 'new_remote' and push my commit there?

$ git branch
* master
$ git remote
old_remote

$ git status
# On branch master
# Your branch is ahead of 'old_remote/master' by 1 commit.

I want to push my commit to a new branch on remote called 'new remote' Thank you.

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited May 01 '15 at 12:26

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If you are currently working on local branch master, and the new remote branch has not been created yet:

git checkout -b new_branch     // creates a local branch (as a copy of the current)

git push origin new_branch // push it to the remote server

edited May 01 '15 at 12:26

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answered Jan 15 '11 at 00:42

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How to create this 'new remote branch'? – michael Jan 15 '11 at 00:44
After I create a local branch using the first command, how can I get my commit from my master branch to this new local branch? – michael Jan 15 '11 at 00:48
@michael This new branch is already a copy of the current branch you were in. – karlphillip Jan 15 '11 at 00:49
Thanks. But why you use 'origin' in your command 'git push origin new_branch' I tried it. It said 'fatal 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository. – michael Jan 15 '11 at 00:53
@michael Are you on currently logged on a directory that has a git repo? `git status` – karlphillip Jan 15 '11 at 00:55
Yes, i am. when I do 'git status', i get 'On branch new_branch' – michael Jan 15 '11 at 00:56
@michael http://stackoverflow.com/questions/922210/unable-to-git-push-master-to-github – karlphillip Jan 15 '11 at 00:57
if i do 'git remote', i get '$ git remote old_remote' so should I do 'git push old_remote new_branch' instead? – michael Jan 15 '11 at 00:59
@michael I believe so, yes. If you type `git branch -a` should tell you what branch you are on. – karlphillip Jan 15 '11 at 01:03

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '11 at 10:01

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If you want to push your master branch into a newbranch on the remote repository called origin then you can run:

git push origin master:newbranch

answered Jan 16 '11 at 10:01

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 30 '17 at 16:37

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Although what you are trying is perfectly legal in git, from a general best practice standpoint (when you have many parallel lines of development) I'd suggest to create a local tracking branch and push it to your remote.

git branch --track local_branch remote_branch

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answered Jan 17 '11 at 14:10

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 30 '17 at 16:06

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git push origin localBranchName:master

More generally,

git push remote local_branch_Name:remote_branch_name

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answered May 05 '15 at 07:04

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 16 '11 at 12:39

I think you just want to push your changes, so:

git push old_remote master

should be enough for you. The first parameter for git push is the remote you want to update (in your case that's old_remote') and the second is the branch you want to push.

Instead of specifying branch with name, you can use --all like this:

git push old_remote --all

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