From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:40:21 GMT
Subject: Re: git checkout -b origin/mybranch origin/mybranch
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0903120440x78b296fbka1ddcf370f5b8df@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650903120436u261cb7e3p838e4a12e7b54d7d@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:36, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
>  git complained that they need to specify the name with -b.  So they did:
>
> git checkout -b origin/somebranch origin/somebranch

Slight unrelated, do they know about -t?

$ git checkout -t origin/somebranch

It will automagically create a branch named 'somebranch' tracking
'origin/somebranch'!

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier