[PATCH 1/4] Mention that git-branch will not automatically check out the new branch
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
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Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 33bc31b..47e6f49 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ and option `-a` shows both.
In its second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created.
It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>.
If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head
-equal to that of the currently checked out branch.
+equal to that of the currently checked out branch. Note that this
+will create the new branch, but it will not switch the working tree to
+it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the new branch.
When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the
branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
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