From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:31:27 GMT Subject: [PATCH 09/10] user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD Message-ID: <1288711888-21528-10-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> In-Reply-To: <1288711888-21528-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> From: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy --- 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 <> 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 <>. + Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default to refer to the repository that you cloned from. -- 1.7.3.2.183.g2e7b0