Re: Terminology question about remote branches.

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2007, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID: <85r6mjdyl8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580708040607ya186edcg89fbc90587b64d68@mail.gmail.com>

"Lars Hjemli" <lh@elementstorage.no> writes:

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> The magic setup that makes this happen is the following lines in .git/config:
>
> [remote "origin"]
>         url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>
> [branch "master"]
>         remote = origin
>         merge = refs/heads/master
>
>
> Was this helpful?

It would be helpful. Except that nothing whatsoever can be found in .git/config concerning my local and my remote tracking branches. So where is that information _really_ hidden away?

.git/FETCH_HEAD maybe?

It also appears that doing

git-checkout --track -b mybranch origin

on a git.git clone does _not_ create a tracking branch. I can't figure out what I could specify as an origin to create a tracking branch that would get reflected in .git/FETCH_HEAD.

What gives?

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