How to track a parent branch?

track-parent

1. I have setup a git repo called parent.git using
   git init --bare

2. Added some files to this parent.git , commited those files and pushed the changes.

3. Now I created a clone of parent.git called trackparent.git as, intent is that trackparent repo will closely track the changes to parent git
   git clone --bare --shared ssh://gitserver/opt/git/parent.git

4. Now say users John and Matt are supposed to work off of trackparent.git and make their changes and push them upstream to trackparent.git, this all works great.

5. Now lets say new files get put into or existing stuff changes in parent.git repository.

6. Now in trackparent.git you do 

    git remote update

This will update your FETCH_HEAD.

   You create branch with this FETCH_HEAD's sha1  on trackparent.git as
   git branch -f newbranch sha1-shown-in-FETCH_HEAD

7. Now in workspace where you have trackparent.git "checked-out" do
    git pull origin newbranch 

   you should now see changes that went into parent.git in branch newbranch.

    Now git push origin to push these changes..

8. Now in workspace that had clones trackparent do 
    git checkout origin newbranch 
   Now you should see changes to trackparent via the parent.git