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dunlop
dunlop

Reputation: 71

How to set upstream between local and remote branches?

I am learning git from book, but I struggle with some problems. I have to manually clone jquery repo. Below there are my commands.

git init 
git remote add origin https://github.com/jquery/jquery.git
git fetch --no-tags origin main:refs/remotes/origin/main

I don't fully understand if it that fetch command is correct. jQuery has branch main, but after that I type following command:

git branch --set-upstream-to master origin/main

I get the following error:

fatal: branch 'origin/main' does not exist.

I don't understand why is that. How to set upstream from my local master branch to the main branch in the remote repo of jQuery?

My git version: git version 2.35.1.windows.2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3959

Answers (1)

jthill
jthill

Reputation: 60295

git branch --set-upstream-to master origin/main

Wrong way 'round, and --set-upstream-to is for modifying an existing branch.

git branch -t master origin/main

aka

git branch --track master origin/main

and better might be

git checkout -b master origin/main

Easiest is just use upstream's name and git checkout main, Git will see the unadorned branch name and fire off its convenience checking. There's no main branch yet, so it'll look for a unique remote-tracking branch for it and find the one you set up.

$ git checkout main
branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.
Switched to a new branch 'main'

Upvotes: 2

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