Create remote GIT branch with Visual Studio Online

Question

I am implementing a GIT repository in Visual Studio Online (and VS 2015 pro) and I am trying to implement a branching strategy that requires multiple remote branches. So, given that I start with "origin/master", I would like to branch off of that and have "origin/development".

I am guessing that I might be able to accomplish this with a command line, but is there a way to do this with VSO? Does this all even make sense, lol? I am obviously new to GIT.

Answer 1

Yes, you can do this from VS and VSO.

From VS:

1. Open “Branches” from Team Explorer.
2. Right click on the project you’d like to branch and select “New local branch from…” to create a local branch.
3. Right click on the new created branch and select “Publish Branch” to publish the local branch to your VSO Remote Repository.

   NOTE: In VS 2017+ it now says "Push Branch" instead of "Publish Branch"

From VSO:

1. Open your project from VSO Web Portal.
2. Click “Code” panel.
3. Click branch dropdown and select New Branch to create a branch.