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How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?


How do I:

  1. Create a local branch from another branch (via git branch or git checkout -b).

  2. Push the local branch to the remote repository (i.e. publish), but make it trackable so that git pull and git push will work.


Solution

  • In Git 1.7.0 and later, you can checkout a new branch:

    git checkout -b <branch>
    

    Edit files, add and commit. Then push with the -u (short for --set-upstream) option:

    git push -u origin <branch>
    

    Git will set up the tracking information during the push.