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Different ways of creating new local tracking branches
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Ways to create a new local branch, tracking a remote branch

Create a new local branch with the same name as the remote one

git checkout <remote_branch_name>
git checkout -t <remote>/<remote_branch_name>

Create a new local branch with a different name to the remote one

git checkout -b <local_branch_name> <remote>/<remote_branch_name>

These assume that you haven't changed any config settings which affect whether tracking is automatically set up, etc

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