From: Alexey Shumkin <zapped@mail.ru>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:56:30 GMT
Subject: Re: pushing to a remote branch that one does not own
Message-ID: <loom.20110119T205035-308@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1295461011273-5940751.post@n2.nabble.com>

> Am I strictly limited to committing only on the master / origin/master
> branched, and forced to make a new branch for every branch that I cloned
> from the remote repo, or is there a way of making the heads of the remote
> branches visible as local too? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Iannis Zannos
> 

Maybe you should read "Pro Git" book chapter 3 "Git Branching"
http://progit.org/book/ch3-0.html
(and look forward for chapter 3.5 "Remote Branches")?