I currently have a private repo with the url of https://github.com/my-name/Pain.git

I pushed the current version and have another, different version in a different folder. I want to branch off of this repo above and push this other folder as branch "Stress". I opened my folder and did

git init

and then

git remote add origin https://github.com/my-name/Pain.git 

then I was assuming i'd be in the repo at the master branch, but when i do

git branch

I get nothing, and when i try to create a new branch to push this new folder to, I get this:

git branch Stress
fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'.

How do I simply go to the already created repo, create a new branch, and then push my alternate version to that new branch without interfering with the master?

CodePudding user response：

try this;

git checkout -b Stress

this code creates a branch named stress and activates that branch