Tracking Remote Branches With Different Names
Understand how to track remote branches that have different names from your local branches in Git. Learn to set up branch tracking during pushes, resolve common push errors, and manage remote branch tracking using commands like git push with --set-upstream or -u flags.
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Tracking a branch
More rarely, you may want to track a branch on the remote repository that has a different name. Or you may want to manually mark the local branch as tracking a specific remote one.
In these situations, you might see this kind of error when you push:
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As is often the case, a careful reading of the error will tell you what you need to know. It’s just the jargon that can be difficult ...