Move unpushed, local branch commits to a new repository

Question

I am creating a new version of a project that I have no rights. Unfortunately I started making my changes (more than 20 local commits) and realized my mistake when I wanted to push my changes.

For example I am working with ProjectA on branch local with the unpushed, local commits, can I transfer the entire local branch to a new ProjectB as master?

I know that I can just contact the developer of the original project to give me temporary rights to solve my problem. However I am curious if there is an existing way to do this with just Git commands.

I have already found:

• "How do I create a new GitHub repo from a branch in an existing repo?" - requires pushed commits
• "How do I move local, unpushed, commits from a corrupt git repository to another repository?" - I need the history of my local branch, not just the patch

Answer 1

Just alter the push target.

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/username/ProjectB.git

Answer 2

Create a new empty repository (say, projectB). Then add a new remote (say, projectb) with the URL of projectB into your projectA.

 $ git remote add projectb <projectB-url>      # add a new remote called 'projectb' with the url of project 'projectB'

Now Push your projectA repo's local branch commits/changes to projectbB repo's master branch.

$ git checkout local         # make sure you are in 'local' branch
$ git push projectb master

Answer 3

It seems you still want to make contribute for the origin github repo. So you can fork this repo and then push your local changes to the fork repo by:

git remote add fork <URL for the fork repo> -f
git checkout local
git push fork master

Now the master branch of fork repo contains your local changes. You can create a pull request to merge your changes to original github repo.