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In git, tracking branches are local branches that relate to a remote branch.

Pull/push operations in git have to specify a repository and branch to pull from (or push to). A branch can be made to track a specific branch so that push/pull operations take the tracked branch as the default target.

For example, when cloning a repository, the master branch will track the corresponding branch origin/master. and

When you check out a local branch from a remote branch, a tracking branch is created automatically:

git checkout local_branch1 remote_rep/branch1

If you want to use the same name as the tracked branched you can use

git checkout --track remote_rep/branch1

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Excluding certain files while 'git pull'

I am doing a complex PHP project with two other people. We had git setup for the project from the beginning. After working for two months, we wanted to remove certain folders (/dev/app) from git tracking ( git was already tracking them). So I…
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How to change git subrepo to track a differentt branch?

I have a subrepo in an ext/[subrep] directory that I want to track a different branch. I have followed the instructions for switching subrepo branches at https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo/wiki/FAQ however, it does not seem to be…
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Git: how to untrack files without staging them for deletion

I have some config files that I want to change locally but not risk accidentally committing those changes. They also cannot be added to gitignore because they need to be tracked for the project as a whole. When I modify those files to suit my…
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Updating local branch from the tracking remote branch without losing changes in local branch

I have cloned a remote branch A from github, and checked out a local branch feature/test from it For example - git clone A git checkout -b feature/test Now i started working on feature/test and did some changes in it and commited but not pushed.…
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Git ignore file change but only once?

Does Git have some kind of "ignore once" function? I want git to ignore a change to a file only this time, is it possible? I have a tracked file with variables , I want to change: Debug: 'true' too be 'false', I don't want the file to show up…
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Add files to .git and do not delete them when pushing to upstream

I am looking into adding some files to .git repo directory, and push them to the upstream without tracking/commiting them. Example: .git/information.txt After I do a commit, I add text to information.txt, and then push. When I clone/fork I would…
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git undo mistaken tracking branch

i wanted to setup my local mainline branch to track origin/mainline but used the command git branch --set-upstream origin/mainline mainline by mistake, with the outcome Branch origin/mainline set up to track local branch mainline. How can I fix…
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git: What if a second branch tracks another branch in origin?

What are the consequences of having a remote branch with the same origin as another one? For example // Create branch foo but track origin/bar instead of origin/foo git branch --track foo origin/bar git push origin foo What are the side…
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Git: Track two branches, when files are located differently on each one

Given I'm on first branch, tracking 'foo' and 'bar' files, like this: my_repository/ ./foo ./bar How could I also track another branch (remote), where this 'foo' and 'bar' files are located under another location? I.e., when…
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How do I show only branch out-of-dateness information from `git status`?

Typically git status shows: Current branch name (or detached HEAD status) Whether upstream branch (if any) is ahead, behind or diverged Changed staged for commit Changes not staged for commit Untracked files How do I view only 1 and 2 without…
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Can Git track an ancestor branch as well as its own branch?

Sorry if this is a noob question, but I've been searching for an hour+ and can't get a clear answer. What I'd like to do is this: Checkout a remote branch git checkout origin/feature Make a local branch based off that branch git checkout -b…
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Why would local "remotes/origin/master" be out of sync with the actual remote branch?

I am wondering, if you do this: git fetch origin master; and the above command succeeds - under what circumstances would the branch "remotes/origin/master" ever be out of sync with the actual remote branch (on Github)? From my observations, it…
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git pushes untracked files

~/D/s/b/h_adv_ML (master±) ▶︎︎ git ls-files --error-unmatch *.csv test_rmse.csv train_rmse.csv error: pathspec 'genome-scores.csv' did not match any file(s) known to git. error: pathspec 'genome-tags.csv' did not match any file(s) known to…
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How to compare branch against deliberately unknown upstream?

How can I compare a local branch against its remote upstream when I don't want to keep in mind what remote branch is its upstream? In other words, I want to drop origin/bar in the second line below: git branch --set-upstream master origin/bar git…
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Git: how to reset untracked files?

I made a commit, then changed some files in my project, then did git reset --hard HEAD. It said untracked files for all the files I had added. How do I resolve this so that those files are tracked and get reset along with the rest of the project?
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