How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too? -Git push branch

Question

I want to be able to do the following:

1. Create a local branch based on some other (remote or local) branch (via git branch or git checkout -b)
2. Push the local branch to the remote repository (publish), but make it trackable so git pull and git push will work immediately.

How do I do that?
I know about --set-upstream in Git 1.7, but that is a post-creation action. I want to find a way to make a similar change when pushing the branch to the remote repository.
 

Answer 1

In order to create a new branch by branching off from an existing branch

git checkout -b <new-branch>

Then push this new branch to repository using

git push -u origin <new-branch>

What we did here? We have created and pushed all local commits to a newly created remote branch origin/<new_branch>

For better understanding about these git commands go through the following crash course on git that will help you to understand git well.