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I read 'http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/02/13/list-remote-branches.html' . I am using git 1.6.3.3. My question is how can I check out a local branch which track a remote branch 'origin/2-2-stable'? In other words, when I push, I will push to 'origin/2-2-stable' instead of 'master'?

$ git branch * master $ git branch -a * master origin/1-2-stable origin/2-0-stable origin/2-1-stable origin/2-2-stable origin/3-0-unstable origin/HEAD origin/master $ git branch -r origin/1-2-stable origin/2-0-stable origin/2-1-stable origin/2-2-stable origin/3-0-unstable origin/HEAD origin/master
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The quick way to do this would be git checkout 2-2-stable.

This creates a local branch 2-2-stable which tracks the remote branch origin/2-2-stable, and checks out this branch.

The long way would be to use git branch 2-2-stable origin/2-2-stable (and doing the checkout separately). If origin/2-2-stable is not a remote branch, you would have to give the -t option to git branch.

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How can I double check if my branch is tracking the remote branch correctly? I have done 'git branch -a', it does not show which remote branch I am tracking.
Look at git config -l, it should show it in the branch.* keys.

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