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Usually, a local branch tracks a remote branch. The remote branch will be updated when pushing or pulling.
But what is the purpose of letting a local branch track another local branch?
When you work with Git and you have multiple features you are working on simultaneously, it is good practice to have a separate branch for each feature. When a feature is completed, you push it into the main branch.
The other branches should then pull from the main branch to make sure that their changes are compatible with the completed branch so that potential merge problems are detected early.
In that case it would be convenient when all feature branches would track the local main branch.