When I try to create a new branch tracking a remote branch, I get this:
$ git branch -t test origin/foo
error: Not tracking: ambiguous information for ref refs/remotes/origin/foo
The source seems to somehow search for branches to track and throws me out because it finds less more than one, but I don't exactly get what it's looking for since I already told it what to track on the command line.
Can anybody tell me what's going on and how to fix it?
None of the other fixes mentioned here worked for me. The one that ended up working was this:
$ git branch -t test origin/test
error: Not tracking: ambiguous information for ref refs/remotes/origin/test
After running the above, even though git complained, it did end up creating a local branch test but no upstream set.
Now, I opened the .git/config file (which did not have any record of a branch test) and added the following manually:
[branch "test"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/test
After which everything worked fine.