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How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?

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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.

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sometimes your need this git push origin -u local_branch:remote_branch
– Bruce Lee
Aug 21, 2018 at 6:28
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why does "git push origin -u remote_branch_name " work sometimes and sometimes not?
– mss
Jul 26, 2020 at 23:32

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How do I push a new local branch to a remote Git repository and track it too?

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