b &lt;branch&gt; --track &lt;remote&gt;/&lt;branch&gt;</pre>
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<p>You could omit <code>&lt;branch&gt;</code>, in which case the command degenerates to
"check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with
rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information,
if exists, for the current branch.</p>
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</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1"><em>git checkout</em> -b|-B &lt;new_branch&gt; [&lt;start point&gt;]</dt>
<dd>
<p>Specifying <code>-b</code> causes a ne