From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:32:58 GMT Subject: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] Re: Remote branchs -- how can I check them out? Message-ID: <20110130213258.GA10039@burratino> In-Reply-To: <20110130160556.GI5713@localhost.localdomain> Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > These branches are local to your repository. They are "remote" in the > sense you're not supposed to modify them directly. > So to inspect such a branch just use its full name ("origin/next" for > instance) when working with commands like git-log. > > See [1], [2] for more info. > > Also your question appears to be quite basic which hints at that you did > not read a good book on Git before using it. So starting at [3] is > recommended -- it mentions a bunch of good books and manuals Pointing to good references is a valuable thing --- thank you for that. But I also want to point out that if you need to read a book before Git becomes usable then we are doing something wrong. :) In this example, perhaps the "git branch" manual page needs some improvement? Jonathan Nieder (2): Documentation/branch: split description into subsections Documentation/branch: briefly explain what a branch is Documentation/git-branch.txt | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)