Sure that works too, though you would likely need to configure your git forge to treat that new branch as the master branch. A branch is ultimately just a pointer to a particular commit, though usually git forges treat one particular branch as "special" (it's the default branch used for clones, and typically disallows direct pushes). This is usually the master or main branch. So my git reset suggestion was intended to reset whatever the default branch of the upstream repo was (probably master).