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Neosapien
Neosapien

Reputation: 177

Git push to new branch in bitbucket

I am quite new to Git. I have a bitbucket repo that I need to work on. The workflow is such that I have to create a new branch on the remote, and then pull that down locally. Lets say the remote branch is named new_branch. This what I am doing:

git init
git pull repo new_branch
# edit files
git add .
git commit -m "some changes"

Form here, I am confused as to how to proceed. I am not creating a branch locally, just working on master. I need to push the changes to and only to remote new_branch. Do i do

git push origin new_branch

Unfortunately, this gives me the error

error: src refspec new_branch does not match any.
error: failed to push some refs to 'origin'

Please tell me what I am doing wrong here. Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10565

Answers (3)

Amit Kaneria
Amit Kaneria

Reputation: 5808

git push origin <local_branch>:<remote_branch>

Above command will create a remote branch with name remote_branch, and push the code from local branch as local_branch

Upvotes: 0

Neosapien
Neosapien

Reputation: 177

After doing 

git checkout new_branch
git push origin new_branch

using the remote branch name for both, I got it to work.

Upvotes: 3

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324268

Try instead of creating a new branch after fetching the repo.

git init .
git remote add origin /url/bitbucket/repo
git fetch
git checkout -b new_branch origin/new_branch

# add, commit

git push -u origin new_branch

Upvotes: 2

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