Remote git branch with different name

Sometimes we want to publish one of our local branches as a master branch in a new git repository.

To initialize newly created github repo add new remote. Let's name it other-repo.

git remote add other-repo https://github.com/xxx/yyy.git

To push local-branch as remote master:

git push -u other-repo local-branch:master

To later push any new commits (this can be simplified using git's config option push.default):

git push other-repo local-branch:master

To delete the tracking without deleting remote branch:

git branch local-branch --unset-upstream

To make existing local branch track existing remote branch (master):

git branch other-repo/master local-branch

To see all the trackings:

git branch -vv

git version 1.9.1