Git – How to Push a New Local Branch to a Remote Repository and Track It

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How do I:

Create a local branch from another branch (via git branch or git checkout -b).
Push the local branch
to the remote repository (i.e. publish), but make it
trackable so that git pull and git push will work.

In Git 1.7.0 and later, you can checkout a new branch:

git checkout -b <branch>

git push -u origin <branch>

Git will set up the tracking information during the push.

Given a branch foo and a remote upstream:

As of Git 1.8.0:

git branch -u upstream/foo

Or, if local branch foo is not the current branch:

git branch -u upstream/foo foo

Or, if you like to type longer commands, these are equivalent to the above two:

git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream/foo

git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream/foo foo

As of Git 1.7.0 (before 1.8.0):

git branch --set-upstream foo upstream/foo

Notes:

All of the above commands will cause local branch foo to track remote branch foo from remote upstream.
The old (1.7.x) syntax is deprecated in favor of the new (1.8+) syntax. The new syntax is intended to be more intuitive and easier to remember.
Defining an upstream branch will fail when run against newly-created remotes that have not already been fetched. In that case, run git fetch upstream beforehand.