Question

Currently I have the following branch

* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master

What I want to do is

• Move my master branch into branch feature-1
• Copy a new master branch from existing master, and make change

So at the end, both my local and remote will have 2 branches – master & feature-1, and when I push from the local master branch, remote master branch will be updated. While when I do push in feature-1 branch, the remote feature-1 will also be updated.

Answer 1

You don’t need to “copy” your current master branch, you simply create a feature-1 branch on top of the current master and push it to origin.

git checkout master
git checkout -b feature-1
git push -u origin feature-1 # only needed once

Note the -u option for the first push of feature-1 branch. You won’t need a git set-upstream to link your local branch to a remote branch of the same name on origin.
See “Git: Why do I need to do --set-upstream all the time?” for more.