From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: skillzero@gmail.com
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git branch --track to link existing local branch to remote?
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:53:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100525195303.GA8174@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinxohzZE6uinzYPIAx3iVjw7afDLsr9MPMUAvHj@mail.gmail.com>
On 2010.05.25 12:40:40 -0700, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> However, the branches aren't linked in the config file so I can't just
> do git pull.
[...]
> So what I've had to do is create a temp branch, switch to it, do git
> branch -f --track master origin/master, and then delete the temp
> branch. Is there a better way?
With git v1.7.0 or newer:
git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
Björn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-25 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-25 19:40 git branch --track to link existing local branch to remote? skillzero
2010-05-25 19:53 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2010-05-26 8:46 ` [PATCH] completion: --set-upstream option for git-branch Michael J Gruber
2010-05-25 19:55 ` git branch --track to link existing local branch to remote? Joshua Jensen
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