Re: Pulling peer's branch and getting tracking branch created

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 27, 2007, 00:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7iu4l8k0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <17891.32095.655545.637691@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

> I can't seem to figure out the correct magic to get my buddy's branch,
> and create the appropriate tracking branch at the same time without
> doing a clone.

I'll cheat and ask "git show b6f5da1e" ;-).

	$ git remote add -f -m master bob ../bob.git/

which should add:

	[remote "bob"]
        	url = ../bob.git/
		fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bob/*

to .git/config, and perform the initial "git fetch bob" so that bob's heads appear under your .git/refs/remotes/bob/*, iow, after this, you can ask:

	$ git branch -r
	  bob/HEAD
          bob/master
          bob/topic-1
          bob/topic-2
          ...