Re: Creating tracked branches

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 22, 2010, 14:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20100422141721.GK3563@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <m2sk6n7g68.fsf@igel.home>

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:47:11PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > P.S.: The "--track without -b implies branch creation" sentence in
> > git-checkout(1) seems to be plain wrong?
> 
> $ git checkout -t origin/maint
> Branch maint set up to track remote branch maint from origin.
> Switched to a new branch 'maint'

Ah! I have not read all the gory details carefully enough. Wonderful, so this would be:

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>   (i) If you do `checkout B`, it will track remote branch B if it
> exists.
> 
>   (ii) If you do `checkout -b B`, it will never auto-track anything.
> 
>   (iii) If you do `git checkout -t -b B`, it will auto-track your
> current _local_ branch.

  (iv) If you do `git checkout -t R`, it will track branch R, deriving
local branch name B from it.

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