lab 45 Adding a Tracking Branch

Goals

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. 01

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 remote branch greet from origin.
$ git branch -a
  greet
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/greet
  remotes/origin/master
$ git hist --max-count=2
* 2e4c559 2013-04-13 | Changed README in original repo (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) [Jim Weirich]
* 2fae0b2 2013-04-13 | Updated Rakefile (origin/greet, greet) [Jim Weirich]

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

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