Hi Michael,
On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 1:42:18 AM UTC+2, Michael Gersten wrote:
>
> Thank you very much.
>
No problem, glad if it helped :)
When I said
> > 843 git fetch origin refs/pull/12121/head
> I was under the impression that explicitly fetching a specific branch also
> set up a tracking branch for it.
>
> I was not aware that I had to say --track
>
In some general use, you don`t even have to say `--track` nowadays, if you
try to checkout a branch that does not exist, but Git finds a remote branch
of the same name, it will be smart and create a new local branch with that
name for you, setting it to track the remote branch automatically.
For example, in a case like this:
$ git branch --all
* master
remotes/gkoelln/Dish
remotes/origin/master
... you can just do (note that local branch "Dish" doesn`t even exist yet):
$ git checkout Dish
... and you`ll get your local remote tracking branch automatically:
Switched to a new branch 'Dish'
Branch Dish set up to track remote branch Dish from gkoelln.
However, in your specific case with "pull request branches" this doesn`t
seem to work as automatically - maybe because of the "special nature" of
those pull request "branches" (residing inside "refs/pull/", instead of
"refs/heads/", on the remote side)...? Not really sure. Yet, `--track` gets
the job done ;)
Regards,
Buga
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