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

so1e
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May 6, 2025

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?

 

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Brant Schroeder
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November 29, 2025

@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.  

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