创建一个新的远程分支？

Question

Quick sanity check - I wanted to create a new remote branch for myself. I want to do the following:

git clone git@github.com:orange/orange.git
git branch foo
git checkout foo
git push foo foo

I'd like to simply clone master, create a new branch named "foo" (using what was in master), then push it to a remote repo called "foo". Does the above do that? The last line seems a little weird, in that I'm naming "foo" twice.

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you are confused by the term "remote." A remote is a repository that exists somewhere else. A remote repository has branches; these are called "remote branches." If your goal is to push your local foo branch to the repository that you just cloned then:

git push origin foo

When you git clone , Git creates a remote called origin . So this is the remote you want to push to. Your git push line assumes that there is a remote called foo . If you have not explicitly created one, then it doesn't exist.