# [PATCH] Fix typo in remote branch example in git user manual 2 messages from 2007-06-05 to 2007-06-05. Participants: Gerrit Pape, J. Bruce Fields. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8436 ## Gerrit Pape, 2007-06-05 08:47 Subject: [PATCH] Fix typo in remote branch example in git user manual Message-ID: <20070605084751.23322.qmail@fcde833ae749fc.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070605084751.23322.qmail%40fcde833ae749fc.315fe32.mid.smarden.org ``` In Documentation/user-manual.txt the example $ git checkout --track -b origin/maint maint under "Getting updates with git pull", should read $ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint This was noticed by Ron, and reported through http://bugs.debian.org/427502 Signed-off-by: Gerrit Pape --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 7eaafa8..342de6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ automatically set the default remote branch to pull from at the time that a branch is created: ------------------------------------------------- -$ git checkout --track -b origin/maint maint +$ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint ------------------------------------------------- In addition to saving you keystrokes, "git pull" also helps you by -- 1.5.2 ``` ## J. Bruce Fields, 2007-06-05 22:46 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typo in remote branch example in git user manual Message-ID: <20070605224635.GG2352@fieldses.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070605224635.GG2352%40fieldses.org In-Reply-To: <20070605084751.23322.qmail@fcde833ae749fc.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> ``` On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:47:51AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > In Documentation/user-manual.txt the example > $ git checkout --track -b origin/maint maint > under "Getting updates with git pull", should read > $ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint Yep, thanks for the fix!--b. ```