[PATCH 09/10] user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 6d6bd8d..3108b38 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -367,13 +367,16 @@ above were created based on the remote branches at clone time and will
be updated by "git fetch" (hence "git pull) and "git push". See
<<Updating -a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details.
-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:
+You might want to build on one of these remote-tracking branches
+on a branch of your own, just as you would for a tag:
------------------------------------------------
$ git checkout -b my-todo-copy origin/todo
------------------------------------------------
+You can also check out "origin/todo" directly to examine it or
+write a one-off patch. See <<detached-head,detached head>>.
+
Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default
to refer to the repository that you cloned from.
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1.7.3.2.183.g2e7b0
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>