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

You can also use this if you want to create a new local branch to track a remote branch:

git checkout --track -b [branch_name] --track origin[or other remote name]/[remote_branch_name] 

or even better:

git checkout -t origin/branch_name