From: Federico Mena Quintero Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:34:32 GMT Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branch Message-ID: <1191368072.3776.201.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> In-Reply-To: <1191367817.3776.192.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero --- Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index e9c12f9..53c1158 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ 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. +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 remote branch. If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it -- 1.5.2.4