Re: Best newbie / advanced / expert reference texts for Git?

From: Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 19, 2010, 17:20 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTins84umA=o=HLCtrFS=om-c_7yEGQzcxDvYv7-D@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinuuU+PqYQs=4XywUsrSyd3evFbRK+2_WxEAoZo@mail.gmail.com>

Hey,

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah there are definitely a lot of resources listed there; so many,
> that one can't readily decide which to use and for what purpose ;-)

Hm, perhaps I should simplify the page a bit then.

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>>> P.S. I glanced at it briefly and it seemed a bit out of date, but
>>> perhaps my inspection was too cursory.
>>
>> Do you have any examples?
>
> I just glanced through a description of checking out branches and
> didn't see the feature that creates a remote-tracking branch foo when
> you `git checkout foo`, and foo isn't a local branch but does exist on
> the remote.

Well, that will never be included - I find it really confusing and try to discourage people from using it in favor of 'git checkout -b foo origin/foo' because i feel it's much more consistent. I would like to make the tracking branch section a bit better, but that's not really an 'out of date' thing.

Thanks again, Scott