feat: add parameter to checkout to specify a remote tracking branch #16
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I needed this because I have some automation set up for managing forks locally. The way I like to do this is by having two remotes,
upstream
andfork
, and i track each one's default branch separately locally in branches namedfork_main
andupstream_main
, but since those aren't the remote names of those refs, I need to set the tracking branch manually when runninggit checkout -b