From: Federico Mena Quintero Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:07:37 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Mention that git-branch will not automatically check out the new branch Message-ID: <1190077657.22387.58.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> In-Reply-To: <1190077493.22387.54.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero --- 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 will be created. It will start out with a head equal to the one given as . If no 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 " 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 -- 1.5.2.4