From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 19:53:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --track to link existing local branch to remote?
Message-ID: <20100525195303.GA8174@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinxohzZE6uinzYPIAx3iVjw7afDLsr9MPMUAvHj@mail.gmail.com>

On 2010.05.25 12:40:40 -0700, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> However, the branches aren't linked in the config file so I can't just
> do git pull.
[...]
> So what I've had to do is create a temp branch, switch to it, do git
> branch -f --track master origin/master, and then delete the temp
> branch. Is there a better way?

With git v1.7.0 or newer:
git branch --set-upstream master origin/master

Björn