Push local commits on master branch to new remote branch

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I have local commits on the master branch, but (due to unforeseen external reasons) I now can't push my changes to master and instead need to push them to a new remote branch (that can be merged back to master later).

How do I (safely) do that?

@AlexPan I haven't tried anything, because my experience with git is that you can monumentally screw things up very easily. — Bohemian, May 13 '15 at 02:04
possible duplicate of [Push commits to another branch](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13897717/push-commits-to-another-branch) — Andrew C, May 13 '15 at 04:48

Alex Pan · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-13T02:45:06.377

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Create a new branch:

git checkout -b myNewBranch

Push to repo:

git push

edited May 13 '15 at 02:45

answered May 13 '15 at 02:38

Alex Pan

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '15 at 04:10

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The easiest way, without creating a new local branch as mentioned in the answer before, would be: Imagine you are on branch test localy and want to push it to a new branch called test-remote

$ git push origin test:test-remote

answered May 13 '15 at 04:10

ckruczek

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Push local commits on master branch to new remote branch

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