From: Thore Husfeldt <thore.husfeldt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:43:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Git terminology: remote, add, track, stage, etc.
Message-ID: <0B20EFC4-E613-4D4A-B4F8-8B1750AA8AFD@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=DXH1WwGJ-h6s3dFfWZZ3tpu_jQgV1Y9O7c6Xf@mail.gmail.com>

Also, in the user-manual.txt:

> Examining branches from a remote repository
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> The "master" branch that was created at the time you cloned is a copy
> of the HEAD in the repository that you cloned from.  That repository
> may also have had other branches, though, and your local repository
> keeps branches that track each of those remote branches, which you
> can view using the "-r" option to linkgit:git-branch[1]:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> $ git branch -r
>   origin/HEAD
>   origin/html
>   origin/maint
>   origin/man
>   origin/master
>   origin/next
>   origin/pu
>   origin/todo
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can
> examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag:

That’s just wrong, isn’t it? You absolutely can check out a remote-tracking branch.