Re: Creating new remote branch in git?

On 06/10/2011 12:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 21:05, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> In the next couple of days it's going to be time to branch off
>>> REL9_1_STABLE from master, and I realized that I am pretty foggy on
>>> how to do that in git.  I suppose it's some variant of
>>>
>>> git checkout master             # if not there already
>>> git branch REL9_1_STABLE
>>> git push origin REL9_1_STABLE
>>>
>>> but it's not clear to me whether any options are needed to ensure that
>>> the right branch tracking behavior gets set up.
> 
>> That looks right, and yeah that won't setup that branch to track
>> upstream for you. However, it should work for anyone that gets that
>> branch as part of a fetch/pull. ( that is it will work like any other
>> remote branch )
> 
> So creating the branch trashes my own repo?  Surely there's a better
> way.

No, it doesn't trash anything.  The branch is just an additional
"pointer" to 'master' (at that point in time).  I recommend taking a
look at this:

http://progit.org/book/ch3-5.html

Joe