Hi,
This is probably a silly question, but how do I check out a remote branch locally for the first time? I pulled the repo and can see the branch in the commit history, but I can’t change to it using ‘Checkout Branch’ as it’s not in the list.
I also tried ‘Checkout Remote Branch’ but it doesn’t create it locally.
Thanks!
There’s a context menu entry for “Create local branch from origin/foo” that will do this
We can’t set a remote branch though, can we? Or, like, when we create a new branch create it while pushing? Had to use command line for this.
This was very confusing to me and I had to drop to the command line to fix it.
I create a new local branch, committed changes and then pushed it to the remote. But it didn’t start tracking it. I could see no way in Sublime Merge to track it. I had to drop to the command line and run
git branch -u origin/branch_name
Am I missing the sublime merge command that can add tracking to an already existing local and remote branch?
The -u option is short for --set-upstream-to=<upstream>, therefore:
Set Upstream...
Set Branch Upstream
It should have, are you sure you didn’t hide the remote branches & therefore didn’t see the newly created & pushed remote branch?
I also have this problem. If I create a new local branch, in order to emulate git push -u origin my-branch, I need to do two steps:
Is there a way to pass the “–set-upstream-to” flag on the original push? I think this is almost always the expected behavior when pushing to a new remote branch.