From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:25:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git-branch and git-remotes confusion
Message-ID: <20070410122516.GA27388@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90704100505i7bdd88a8q52186f7ce7ff0cdf@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:05:17AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

>   git-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git
>   git-branch --track origin/mdl18-olpc my18-olpc

Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be:

  git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc

Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1.  Other than that, it
should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after
to see the impact of --track).

-Peff