git - Pushing a local branch up to GitHub

Question

I have Git configured so that when I run git push, it pushes changes to my GitHub repo. Until now I have only had a master branch.

However, I have now created a local branch and committed to it using:

git checkout -b my_new_branch
git commit

What I would like to do now is push my changes on this branch to GitHub. Do I just do a git push?

When I first set it up I did run:

git config push.default current

Answer 1

I believe you're looking for git push origin my_new_branch, assuming your origin remote is configured to hit your github repository.