How to create a branch on remote and push to it?

[MMachado05]

Say I'm on main and want to create a new branch to be tracked on remote, we'll call it branch for brevity. In the CLI, I would git checkout -b branch, edit, add, and commit, until finally doing a git push -u origin branch. That makes a new branch on remote, and then my local branch branch will be pushing to it whenever I push.

I can't seem to figure this out on Lazygit. I'll make a branch from my local main branch, u for upstream options, s to set upstream, but it only lets me use pre-existing remote branches, rather than being able to push to a new one. Am I misunderstanding something here?

[stefanhaller]

Create your branch locally, e.g. from your local main. Make your commits. Once you're ready to push it to the remote, hit shift-P; it will ask you to which remote you want to push, and with which remote branch name.

[MMachado05]

Thank you! I feel a bit silly now seeing how obvious it was... 😅 But your concise answer is greatly appreciated!

[canton7]

Sorry to resurrect this, but that doesn't seem to work. I get the following (sorry for the screenshot, I can't work out how to copy text in a nice way):

I want to do git push -u origin HEAD or similar.

@stefanhaller Do you have any ideas?

[Jnolcox]

Bumping this as I am getting the same issue - I can't push a new remote branch

[Jnolcox]

Correct.

The branch does not yet exist remotely when executing these steps. After pushing, the error pops up.

[mark2185]

Does the branch have an upstream set? What if you unset it through the menu under u?

[Jnolcox]

It does not have an upstream set.

The selected branch has no upstream (or the upstream is not stored locally)

[canton7]

In my case, the branch does have an upstream of origin/main, because it was created with git checkout -b branch_name origin/main.

Unsetting the upstream works.

[Jnolcox]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when exercising the option to create a new branch from within LazyGit, it should create, checkout and set upstream. It seems it is only creating it locally but drops the ball on push.