Push commits to another branch

It's very simple. Suppose that you have made changes to your Branch A which resides on both place locally and remotely but you want to push these changes to Branch B which doesn't exist anywhere.

Step-01: create and switch to the new branch B

git checkout -b B

Step-02: Add changes in the new local branch

git add . //or specific file(s)

Step-03: Commit the changes

git commit -m "commit_message"

Step-04: Push changes to the new branch B. The below command will create a new branch B as well remotely

git push origin B

Now, you can verify from bitbucket that the branch B will have one more commit than branch A. And when you will checkout the branch A these changes won't be there as these have been pushed into the branch B.

Note: If you have commited your changes into the branch A and after that you want to shift those changes into the new branch B then you will have to reset those changes first. #HappyLearning

Certainly, though it will only work if it's a fast forward of BRANCH2 or if you force it. The correct syntax to do such a thing is

git push <remote> <source branch>:<dest branch> 

See the description of a "refspec" on the git push man page for more detail on how it works. Also note that both a force push and a reset are operations that "rewrite history", and shouldn't be attempted by the faint of heart unless you're absolutely sure you know what you're doing with respect to any remote repositories and other people who have forks/clones of the same project.

That will almost work.

When pushing to a non-default branch, you need to specify the source ref and the target ref:

git push origin branch1:branch2

Or

git push <remote> <branch with new changes>:<branch you are pushing to>