Git: If I push a new branch to origin, how to make it tracking automatically

Question

I created a new local branch and pushed it with

git push origin my-branch

How can I automatically set up my local branch to tag the just created remote branch?

Or do I always need

git branch --set-upstream my-branch  origin/my-branch

Answer 1

You can use git push -u origin my-branch. This will set-up everything for argument-less push/pull.