Re: git pull behavior changed?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 22, 2010, 02:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20100422021015.GB25093@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <v2z3abd05a91004211827ua3955912w676d8a3e001ed461@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:27:31PM -0400, Aghiles wrote:

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> > You may also be interested to know that "git checkout foo" these days
> > when you have no "foo" branch will do the equivalent of "git checkout -b
> > --track foo origin/foo", which would also do what you want.
> 
> Wouldn't that create/track a remote 'foo' branch ? I have no remote branches
> but only local ones so I am always tracking origin/master.

Yes, it would, so I guess it doesn't help you. You should do "git checkout -b foo origin/master", then.

-Peff