From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:02:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Terminology question about remote branches.
Message-ID: <20070805110200.GA18083@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <85172807-B7EB-47DD-813E-FAF5894E1190@zib.de>

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:56:49PM +0200, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> beyond my imagination that I could have a local following/automerging
> branch that is directly referring to a branch in a remote repo, without
> have a remote-tracking branch.
>
> How could I create such a setup in the first place?
>
>     git branch --track something origin/something
>     git checkout --track -b something origin/something
>
> are obvious, but what to say if I don't have origin/something?

I believe the --track setup uses the tracking branches to figure out
which remote/branch combo to track. To do it without a remote tracking
branch, you would have to add the lines to your .git/config manually.

-Peff