I believe that in as early as Git 1.5.x you could make a local branch $BRANCH
track a remote branch origin/origin/$BRANCH
, like this.
Given that $BRANCH
and origin/origin/$BRANCH
exist, and you've not currently checked out $BRANCH
(switch away if you have), do:
git branch -f --track $BRANCH origin/$BRANCH
This recreates $BRANCH
as a tracking branch. The -f
forces the creation despite $BRANCH
existing already. --track
is optional if the usual defaults are in place (that is, the git-config parameter branch.autosetupmerge
is true).
Note, if origin/origin/$BRANCH
doesn't exist yet, you can create it by pushing your local $BRANCH
into the remote repository with:
git push origin $BRANCH
Followed by the previous command to promote the local branch into a tracking branch.