Push local commits on master branch to new remote branch

Question

I have local commits on the master branch, but (due to unforeseen external reasons) I now can't push my changes to master and instead need to push them to a new remote branch (that can be merged back to master later).

How do I (safely) do that?

Answer 1

Create a new branch:

git checkout -b myNewBranch

Push to repo:

git push