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Asked: 2026-06-05T16:38:55+00:00

Quick sanity check – I wanted to create a new remote branch for myself.

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Quick sanity check – I wanted to create a new remote branch for myself. I want to do the following:

git clone git@github.com:orange/orange.git
git branch foo
git checkout foo
git push foo foo

I’d like to simply clone master, create a new branch named “foo” (using what was in master), then push it to a remote repo called “foo”. Does the above do that? The last line seems a little weird, in that I’m naming “foo” twice.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you are confused by the term “remote.” A remote is a repository that exists somewhere else. A remote repository has branches; these are called “remote branches.” If your goal is to push your local foo branch to the repository that you just cloned then:

    git push origin foo

    When you git clone, Git creates a remote called origin. So this is the remote you want to push to. Your git push line assumes that there is a remote called foo. If you have not explicitly created one, then it doesn’t exist.

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