How to create new branch in GitHub?

On GitHub,navigate to the main page of the repository.

Optionally,if you want to create your new branch from a branch other than the default branch for the repository,click NUMBER branches then choose another branch:

Click the branch selector menu.

Type a unique name for your new branch,then select Create branch .

How to create a branch in Git?

Create New Branch: Use -b switch to create new branch with ‘git checkout’ command’.

List Branches: This will list all branches used in current working git repository.

Switch to Other Branch: Use the following command to switch to any other branch.

Push New Branch: Now push your newly created branch ‘ stage1 ‘ to remote git repository.

What does Git push -U Mean?

The git push command is used to upload local repository content to a remote repository . Pushing is how you transfer commits from your local repository to a remote repo. It’s the counterpart to git fetch, but whereas fetching imports commits to local branches, pushing exports commits to remote branches.

How to Git push?

Open Git Bash/Windows command prompt whichever you familiar with and goto your project location which you wanted to push into GIT.

I have created a simple Spring-Helloworld project,and I would like to push this into my GIT account.

Initiate git init command to make this project keep track by GIT.

Check the status of the project by hitting the git status command. There you can see the branch details and untracked files in red colour.

Git add . command is used to add all the uncommitted files to git,and make them available to commit.

Commit the changes to git using git commit command.

Login to your git account and create a GIT repository like below. Click on New repository option to create a repository.

Give the name to your repository and click on create repository button.

This is how you are repository looks like. Now,this is the time to push our local project to a remote git repository.

To push the project/changes into the remote repository,we need to have the remote repository’s location/URL.

Add your remote repository by hitting git remote add origin remote address. For the very first time,it may ask your git credentials to connect with it.

Now push the project into GIT repository using git push command.

Validate the things in the remote repository,just refresh your git repository then you could see your project.