Re: Creating new remote branch in git?

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:40, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Joe Abbate <jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)com> writes:
>> No, it doesn't trash anything.  The branch is just an additional
>> "pointer" to 'master' (at that point in time).  I recommend taking a
>> look at this:
>
>> http://progit.org/book/ch3-5.html
>
> Yes, I was reading exactly that before posting.  It talks about pushing
> a branch you've created locally, and it talks about what happens when
> others pull that down, and it's about as clear as mud w/r/t how the
> original pusher sees the remote branch.  What I want is to end up
> with my local branch tracking the remote branch in the same way as if
> I'd not been the branch creator.  Preferably without having to do
> anything as ugly as delete the branch, or re-clone, or manually hack
> config files.  This has got to be a use case that the git authors
> have heard of before...

I think you need the -u parameter to "git push". (Haven't tested, though)

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