Creating a remote branch

If you want to collaborate with others or create a patched version of master you'll have to create a remote branch. Assuming we left off from Creating a local branch

```
% git status
# On branch abhiks-branch
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
#   modified:   README
#
# Changed but not updated:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#
#   modified:   a.java
#
```

1. Let's commit the staged and unstaged changes.

   % git commit -am "Commiting more branch changes"
   [abhiks-branch 17d58c9] Commiting more branch changes
    2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
   % git status
   # On branch abhiks-branch
   nothing to commit (working directory clean)
   

2. Simply run git push origin <branch name> (ignore the "", it's a formatting issue with the wiki).

   % git push origin abhiks-branch
   Counting objects: 11, done.
   Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
   Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
   Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 815 bytes, done.
   Total 7 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
   To [email protected]:abhikp/git-test.git
    \* [new branch]      abhiks-branch -> abhiks-branch
   

3. Unfortunately, this doesn't set the local branch to track the remote branch (e.g. any changes pushed to the remote branch will not be detected by the local branch).

   % git branch --set-upstream abhiks-branch origin/abhiks-branch
   Branch abhiks-branch set up to track remote branch abhiks-branch from origin.