How can I work with a local branch and a remote branch?-CodePudding

I am working with a local repository and a repository on my server. The server branch should have the name "master" and the local branch I would like to name "local".

With git branch -a I listed all my branches:

* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master

I guess that * master here is the local repository I am actually working at the moment. What I do not understand is, what is origin/HEAD ? and why is it pointing to origin/master?

Is origin/master the same as master? I am confused.

So as a result I think I would need only this:

* local
remotes/origin/master

CodePudding user response：

origin/HEAD is the default branch of the remote repository with name origin. You can usually ignore it.

To rename your local branch, run git branch -m local master, git checkout master && git branch -m local, or git checkout -f local master && git branch -d master.

CodePudding user response：

Good evening!

You can look at .git directory and find there next path: .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD

You also can cat it:

cat .git/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
ref: refs/remotes/origin/master

That means that remote HEAD refers to a remote master

jfyi You can also see where the local HEAD refers to

cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master