Support new branch creation by default

Describe the bug I’m committing code to a new branch in a remote repo. The local repo has a new branch and the remote one does not yet have this branch.

Workflow used remote> git branch newbranch remote> git add . remote> git commit -am {commit message}

Expected behavior The line > Switching/creating branch... would create the branch.

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Logs

Internal logs
  > Staging files...
  > Adding files...
  > No files to remove.
  > Checking for uncommitted changes in the git working tree...
  > Found 8 changed files.
  { raw: '', remote: null, branches: [], tags: [] }
  > Switching/creating branch...
  Error: Error: error: pathspec 'aff' did not match any file(s) known to git

Pulling from remote…
{ raw: ‘’, remote: null, branches: [], tags: [] }
Error: Error: There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to merge with.
See git-pull(1) for details.

  git pull <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:
  git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> aff

Outputs
Error: Error: There is no tracking information for the current branch.

[drewwells]

workaround worked great, thanks. Since we’re going to be updating remote branches, I also need the --force flag. Here’s a full example for future people.

      - name: commit generated code
        if: github.repository == env.upstream
        uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v7
        with:
          branch: ${{ github.head_ref }}
          # TBD: PRs may have an empty message
          message: ${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}
          add: .
          pull: NO-PULL
          push: --force --set-upstream origin  ${{ github.head_ref }}

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@EndBug

I’ve put up a pull request to add @drewwells! 🎉