From: Federico Mena Quintero Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:32:32 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs. Message-ID: <1191367952.3776.196.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> In-Reply-To: <1191367817.3776.192.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> The documentation used to say what the option does, but it didn't mention a use case. Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero --- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 734928b..dbd1a4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ OPTIONS --track:: When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch, set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically - retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the + retrieve data from the remote branch. Use this if you always + pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you + don't want to use "git pull " explicitly. Set the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if '--track' were given. -- 1.5.2.4