如何在git上进行git setup跟踪分支

Question

There are times when I'm pulling new changes from a repo that someone else changed. They have created new branches and pushed them to the central repo. Is there a way, when pulling these new branches, to get git to automatically create tracking branches of the same name locally?

Answer 1

I don't think git supports this out of the box.

In case if this is only for one branch, you could do:

git fetch origin branch_name && git checkout -b branch_name --track origin/branch_name

You could also create a git alias for the above, by adding the following to your ~/.gitconfig file:

[alias]
    fetch_tracking = "!f() { git fetch origin $1 && git checkout -b $1 --track origin/$1; }; f"

and then call it using

git fetch_tracking branch_name

Of course, you would do the above the first time only.