From: Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:12:09 GMT
Subject: Pushing a new branch to a remote and tracking it
Message-ID: <AANLkTikxmhndNqGDpwfBm41OuaPvnB=2xqp6gkYOTQiF@mail.gmail.com>

Is there a more elegant way to: 1) create a branch, 2) push it to a
remote and 3) continue to track it.

I noticed that:

git branch <branchname> HEAD
git checkout <branchname>
git push origin <branchname>

does not link the local branch to the remote.

I've seen other people do:

git push origin origin:refs/heads/<branchname>
git fetch origin
git branch -r (verify that the branch is there)
git checkout <branchname> -b origin/<branchname>

but it seems kind of the reverse of what I would expect to do. I know
I could also do the first thing and then delete/re-checkout the branch
with tracking.