# Pushing a new branch to a remote and tracking it

3 messages from 2010-07-27 to 2010-07-28. Participants: Bradley Wagner, Andreas Schwab.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24543

## Bradley Wagner, 2010-07-27 22:12

Subject: Pushing a new branch to a remote and tracking it
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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.

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## Andreas Schwab, 2010-07-27 22:35

Subject: Re: Pushing a new branch to a remote and tracking it
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Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> writes:

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

git push --set-upstream (since v1.7.0)

Andreas.

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## Bradley Wagner, 2010-07-28 01:20

Subject: Re: Pushing a new branch to a remote and tracking it
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a more elegant way to: 1) create a branch, 2) push it to a
>> remote and 3) continue to track it.
>
> git push --set-upstream (since v1.7.0)

Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for.

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