Track a new remote branch created on GitHub

Question

I have already got a local master branch tracking the remote master branch of a github project  Now  a collaborator of mine has created a new branch in the same project  and I want to do the following accordingly    create a new branch locally make this new branch track the newly create remote branch    How should I do it properly

User · Answer

When the branch is no remote branch you can push your local branch direct to the remote.

git checkout master
git push origin master

or when you have a dev branch

git checkout dev
git push origin dev

or when the remote branch exists

git branch dev -t origin/dev

There are some other posibilites to push a remote branch.

User · Answer

git fetch git branch --track branch-name origin branch-name   First command makes sure you have remote branch in local repository  Second command creates local branch which tracks remote branch  It assumes that your remote name is origin and branch name is branch-name   --track option is enabled by default for remote branches and you can omit it

User · Answer

First of all you have to fetch the remote repository   git fetch remoteName   Than you can create the new branch and set it up to track the remote branch you want   git checkout -b newLocalBranch remoteName remoteBranch   You can also use  git branch --track  instead of  git checkout -b  as max specified    git branch --track newLocalBranch remoteName remoteBranch

User · Answer

If you don t have an existing local branch  it is truly as simple as   git fetch git checkout  lt remote-branch-name gt    For instance if you fetch and there is a new remote tracking branch called origin feature Main Page  just do this   git checkout feature Main Page   This creates a local branch with the same name as the remote branch  tracking that remote branch  If you have multiple remotes with the same branch name  you can use the less ambiguous   git checkout -t  lt remote gt   lt remote-branch-name gt    If you already made the local branch and don t want to delete it  see How do you make an existing Git branch track a remote branch

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