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Remote then Local
It is easy to setup a local branch (we’ll call it zzz here) to track a pre-existing remote branch:

$ git –track branch zzz origin/zzz

Alternately, if you use the branch.autosetupmerge setting in your git config to enable automatic branch tracking [1], the command is even shorter:

$ git branch zzz origin/zzz

Local then Remote (reverse)
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