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Branches in git help you separate features from the main working branch. They come in handy when you separate tasks into different branches. For example, suppose the production branch is named main, where the team pushes changes. The team can create another branch where they push changes, and the testing team can test the features of the branch before stagingpushing the changes to the production branch .mainstaging

However, the branches in local and remote repositories may be different. For example, if you mainmove from a branch to a branch in your local machine devto make some changes and push your local branch to the remote repository, then you can follow some methods to do this efficiently.

Creating a remote branch in Git

The cool thing about git is that when you push a locally created branch to a remote repository in git, the locally created branch will also be pushed to the remote server. So, if you want to create a branch in the remote repository, you can start by creating a branch locally. You can do this using the following syntax.

git checkout -b <branch-name>

For example, if you want to create a devbranch called , you can do this,

git checkout -b dev

Now you can push your branch to the remote repository using the following command.

git push <remote-name> <branch-name>

Here <remote-name>defaults to origin, which points to the repository URL where the project was cloned.

Here, continuing with our example, you can devpush the newly created branch as,

git push origin dev

However, if you want the remote branch name to be different from your local branch name, you can use this syntax instead,

git push <remote_name> <local_branch_name>:<different_remote_branch_name_you_want>

If you mention only one name, it will assume that local_branch_nameand remote_branch_nameare same. Now, other developers can git pull origin deveasily pull the changes from devthe branch to their local machines using the command.

If you want to mainupdate the branch with the contents of the branch dev, you can do so after checking out devthe branch git pull origin master(using git checkout dev).