问题
sometimes, git will spontaneously (during some, but not all, "pull" or "clone" operations) copy all of the remote branches of a repository into my local repository (and even set them all up to track the corresponding remote branches correctly). What causes this? Is there a way I can do this on purpose?
回答1:
If you just do a normal branch from a remote branch, it'll track by default:
git checkout -b somebranch origin/somebranch
means roughly the same thing as
git checkout -t origin/somebranch
You pretty much have to explicitly tell it if you don't want such tracking.
回答2:
If you know the name of the remote branch you want to track, you can just do:
git checkout somebranch
It will say something like:
Branch somebranch set up to track remote branch badges from origin.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/415433/sometimes-git-will-track-all-remote-git-branches-as-local-branches-without-me-as