GIT Notes for the Interview PART-3

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My last post was all about git add, git commit, git pull, and git push. In this post, we will see what is remote-tracking branches and how to create them.

You can create a local branch that will track the mentioned remote branch using the command below

git checkout --track origin/testrepo

This command will create one local branch name testrepo which is tracking remote branch name testrepo, here origin is the remote.

If you want to create a branch with a different name you can use the below command

git checkout -b newname origin/testrepo

This will create a local branch name newname

Please note that you can only use commands

git pull
git push

when your branch is already tracking some remote branch, but if your branch is not created by using the above-mentioned commands, then you need to mention explicitly in the git push and git pull commands about the remote branch from where and to where you need to pull and push respectively.

The new command of git push and pull will look like this

git push -u origin testrepo
git pull -u origin testrepo

In case when the local branch and remote branch name are the same. Here -u is the flag used to specify which upstream branch you want to push and pull.

Suppose you already created a local branch without tracking a remote branch and now you want to track some remote branch without creating a new branch.

You can use this command to do that

git branch --set-upstream-to= origin/testrepo

Here you just made a local branch name testrepo to track a remote branch name testrepo at the remote origin.

To check which branches are tracking which branch use the below command

git branch -vv

This will provide you something like this (just an example, the real format may look different)


master     i8765ry [origin/master]
*testrepo j89uyt6 [origin/testrepo]

To check the remote branches use the below command

git branch --remote

In our next post, we will see some of the common issues developers face in the GIT and how to resolve them.

Here is the link to my previous two posts


 

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