joshavant/branch_to_fork.md

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Creates a new branch on a secondary Git repo (i.e. fork) with the contents of a branch from a primary repo:

git fetch SOURCE_REMOTE SOURCE_BRANCH:NEW_BRANCH_NAME; git checkout NEW_BRANCH_NAME; git branch -u TARGET_REMOTE NEW_BRANCH_NAME

i.e. git fetch origin 3.7.0:foobar-feature; git checkout foobar-feature; git branch -u fork foobar-feature

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