# [PATCH] git-clone documentation

1 messages from 2006-12-14 to 2006-12-14. Participants: Quy Tonthat.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43533

## Quy Tonthat, 2006-12-14 14:17

Subject: [PATCH] git-clone documentation
Message-ID: <45815D11.4090609@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/45815D11.4090609%40gmail.com

```
When --use-separate-remote is used on git-clone, the remote
heads are saved under $GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin/, not
"$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin/"

Quy



diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 985043f..bfddb21 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	defined default, typically `/usr/share/git-core/templates`.
 
 --use-separate-remote::
-	Save remotes heads under `$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin/` instead
+	Save remotes heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin/` instead
 	of `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`.  Only the local master branch is
 	saved in the latter. This is the default.
 

```