git: how to turn a clone into a new branch? [duplicate]

Question

I've cloned master from my repository and have been making a bunch of edits and local commits. I've now realised this should be a new branch in my remote repository. Normally I'd just push to the remote system, how do I push as a new branch to the remote repos?

Answer 1

Assuming you have't pushed anything yet and your history looks something like

A -- B -- C -- D -- E
^                   ^
|                   |
origin/master       master

You can just do the following:

git branch feature
git reset origin/master

to get this:

A -- B -- C -- D -- E
^                   ^
|                   |
|                   feature
origin/master,master