Comments on: Tracking Remote Git Branches

By: git Cheatsheet | Ankit Ahuja

git Cheatsheet | Ankit Ahuja — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:29:51 +0000

[...] Alternative methods listed here. [...]

By: kellyp

kellyp — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:25:40 +0000

Thanks for the super awesome post! They should try and make it a little more difficult to create a remote branch.

By: felix

felix — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:04:39 +0000

all good, but my problem was still this:

having pushed the branch to the remote, the other machines were still unable to see this new branch using git branch -r

so for those of us for whom this was not obvious: git branch -r lists the remote branches that are currently known. git fetch will fetch the branch information from the remote

git fetch

From ssh://123.45.67.890/home/moi/gits/gitpo
* [new branch] pullproxy -> origin/pullproxy

moi:~/gitpo$ git branch -r
origin/HEAD
origin/master
origin/pullproxy

now I can:
git branch -f pullproxy origin/pullproxy

and check it out:
git checkout pullproxy

By: Tracking Remote Git Branches -being practical...

Tracking Remote Git Branches -being practical... — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:26:18 +0000

[...] http://djwonk.com/blog/2009/04/18/tracking-remote-git-branches/ [...]

By: Daniel Rosenstark

Daniel Rosenstark — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:58:05 +0000

Scratch that last comment. Your have compiled the best answers from everywhere. This find

git branch -f zzz origin/zzz

is great.

By: Kristian

Kristian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:06:37 +0000

I believe the first example should be:
$ git branch –track zzz origin/zzz

Thanks for a great guide.

By: Daniel Rosenstark

Daniel Rosenstark — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:38:50 +0000

Thanks for that, David. It’s fascinating that the original post (http://www.zorched.net/2008/04/14/start-a-new-branch-on-your-remote-git-repository) is actually easier to read, at least for those with ADD (everyone, basically). When you make sense of the information, it loses the fun somehow.

By: Luigi Montanez

Luigi Montanez — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:58:53 +0000

I just use the grb gem and let it do the hard work for me:

http://github.com/webmat/git_remote_branch