Question

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I have downloaded source code from google android website following google’s guide. My purpose is to create a local branch to track remote branch

take framework/media for example, you can see .git under this directory, but when you run


git branch


the output is

*no branch

I crate my local branch using

git checkout -b local

then I have the problem, how can I switch back to track remote branch, I cannot pull updated source code from google for this .git again. There is only one local branch.

I also tried

git remote

and get


aosp https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base (fetch)

aosp https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base (push)


git branch --track local aosp

but I get the error

fatal: Not a valid object name: aosp

Anybody can give me some advice and guide? thanks very much.

Answer 1

You can use…

git branch --track local aosp/master

(The reason you’re getting an error is because aosp is a remote, not a specific thing on that remote. aosp/master refers to the master branch on that remote, and thus can be tracked.)