base.  As the keeper of
the canonical history, you need to view the history from the remote
as <code>ours</code> (i.e. "our shared canonical history"), while what you did
on your side branch as <code>theirs</code> (i.e. "one contributor&#8217;s work on top
of it").</p>
</div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">-b &lt;new_branch&gt;</dt>
<dd>
<p>Create a new branch named <code>&lt;new_branch&gt;</code> and start it at
<code>&lt;start_point&gt;</code>; see <a href="git-branch.html">git-branch(1)</a> for details.</p>
<