lab 53 Adding a Tracking Branch

Goals

Learn how to add a local branch that tracks a remote branch.

The branches starting with remotes/origin are branches from the original repo. Notice that you don’t have a branch called greet anymore, but it knows that the original repo had a greet branch.

Add a local branch that tracks a remote branch.

Execute:

git branch --track greet origin/greet
git branch -a
git hist --max-count=2

Output:

$ git branch --track greet origin/greet
branch 'greet' set up to track 'origin/greet'.
$ git branch -a
* (no branch)
  greet
  remotes/origin/excitement
  remotes/origin/greet
  remotes/origin/main
$ git hist --max-count=2
* a3d1a30 2022-10-24 | Updated Rakefile (HEAD, origin/main) [Jim Weirich]
* 2a07cf7 2022-10-24 | Hello uses Greeter [Jim Weirich]

We can now see the greet branch in the branch list and in the log.