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lovespring
lovespring

Reputation: 440

What's the difference between tracking branch and upstream branch in git?

Or what's the different between those two commands? What does "tracking" refer to? How about "upstream"? Are the two actions different?

git branch --track [branch] [remote-branch]  
git branch --set-upstream [branch] [remote-branch]

thx~

Upvotes: 2

Views: 520

Answers (1)

fgb
fgb

Reputation: 3119

The idea behind both commands is that you'd like to track the changes in a remote branch.

git branch --track [branch] [remote-branch]

Creates a local branch from the remote-branch and sets the remote-branch as its upstream in order to track differences. This is the default behavior when branching off of a remote branch and can be controlled using the branch.autoSetupMerge configuration variable.

git branch --set-upstream [branch] [remote-branch]

Updates the upstream branch of a local branch to track differences to the remote-branch. If the local branch didn't yet exist, the above two commands would be equivalent. The main difference is that --set-upstream doesn't necessarily modify the branch pointer.

For further information, you should review the git branch documentation.

Upvotes: 3

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