How to change the default tracking when checking out a remote branch?

[so1e]

When I create a new branch from a remote in Sourcetree, it always selects "track" by default. This causes my new branch to push directly to the source remote branch.

However, I want to always push a new branch to the remote, not update the original remote branch, since that affects team collaboration.

Is there a setting to control whether "track" is selected by default?

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

@so1e welcome to the Atlassian community

There is not way to change this.  My guess is that there is no setting change because by default Git tracks the remote branch.  

[so1e]

Thank you — I almost forgot about this issue.

Thanks for the explanation, but I’ve already figured some things out, and it seems this was just a misunderstanding.

Indeed, when I run git checkout -b origin/staging, Git will also set up tracking by default.

It’s just that different push.default configurations lead to different results when pushing: the new branch may be pushed to origin/staging, or I may be prompted to run git push -u origin test_from_remote. When using a GUI, I probably didn’t notice this behavior.