how to create a pull request on bitbucket when local branch already exists

Question

I already made a feature branch on my local repository and committed my changes to it. Say it's called feature_x . This branch does not exist at the origin, which is bitbucket.org.

I want to make a pull request of my changes to the develop branch on bitbucket so my teammates can do a code review.

I do see the instructions on bitbucket for creating a pull request and I started to go through that dialog, but one of my obstacles is I need a branch on bitbucket to do the pull request from, but I only have a local feature branch.

Answer 1

These commands did what I needed to do on my side in order for bitbucket to be able to do a pull request. I was on a branch called feature_X :

git branch -m feature_X_toddmo
git push --set-upstream origin feature_X_toddmo