Re: git pull behavior changed?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 22, 2010, 08:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20100422081055.GG3563@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <u2n3abd05a91004211657v3dcdaf40j3608f3d8f59c4c1b@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:57:17PM -0400, Aghiles wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010, Randal L. Schwartz  wrote:
> >    git checkout -b test origin/test
> >    ...
> >    git pull
> >
> > And it seems to work.  It even announces that my test is tracking origin/test.
> 
> Yes that syntax works too (although I use origin/master since I am tracking
> the main branch and not the remote "test" branch). Thank you very much.

So, do I understand it right that there is still no canonical syntax to check out local branch tracking a remote one of the same name, without spelling out the branch name twice?

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