Getting existing git branches to track remote branches

Question

My usual workflow when working with git, is something like this:

1. create a local repository
2. do some work in that repository, add/change files etc.

Answer 1

Fast forward three years (see what I did there :-) ), I tried to pull an untracked branch using Git Bash and received

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

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

The following achieved what I needed:

$ git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/develop develop Branch 'develop' set up to track remote branch 'develop' from 'origin'.