From: Steven Grimm Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:52:20 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Describe git-clone's actual behavior in the summary Message-ID: <459F00D4.3040203@midwinter.com> If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository, git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's "master" branch. This patch describes the actual behavior. Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm --- Documentation/git-clone.txt | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index e7085fd..a782074 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ DESCRIPTION Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository -(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out a master -branch equal to the cloned repository's master branch. +(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out an initial +branch equal to the cloned repository's currently active branch. After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the -current branch. +current master branch, if any. This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and -- 1.5.0.rc0.g244a7