#GIT ADD REMOTE TRACK BRANCH FULL#

Most of the time you don't need this, and git branch suffices.)Ī (regular, local) branch can be set to track another branch.

#GIT ADD REMOTE TRACK BRANCH FULL#

Additional references may also exist and you can see all of them with git for-each-ref, which will show you every reference using its full name. (Note that all these entities are local to your own repository, despite the name 'remote-tracking'. (If you do accidentally name a local branch origin/abc, for instance, you may confuse yourself and git's helpful stripping of prefixes becomes harmful.) This is meant for convenience, and works well as long as you do not accidentally give your (regular, local) branches names starting with origin/. The prefix-stripping works both ways: git branch takes it off, and you can leave it off too. The git branch -r command strips off the refs/remotes/ part, leaving you with names like origin/master and origin/v2. When using git branch -r, the command will show you your remote-tracking branches. The git branch command strips off the refs/heads/ part, leaving you with names like master and v2.Ī remote-tracking branch is one whose full name starts with refs/remotes/ (and then has the name of a remote after that). When using git branch, you will see your local branches by default. The output of the command 'git branch -a' shows the following output masterīut not showing the mapping between the local and remote branches.Ī local branch (also just called 'a branch', with no modifier) is one whose full name starts with refs/heads/. My question is, why the branch v2 is not showing as a tracked branch even though the remote branch is available in github and i am able to do the pull and push of this branch?

Master pushes to master (local out of date)īut when i was executing the command 'git branch -vv' it is showing the the branch 'v2' is not a tracking branch. Later when i was executing the command 'git remote show origin' i am getting the following output. Later i have created a new branch('git branch v2') called 'v2' and did some modification and pushed that branch to github as well.

I have created a repository in local and pushed all the changes to the github.

Git add remote track branch