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From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: git pull behavior changed?
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:57:17PM -0400, Aghiles wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010, Randal L. Schwartz  wrote:
> > =A0 =A0git checkout -b test origin/test
> > =A0 =A0...
> > =A0 =A0git pull
> >
> > And it seems to work. =A0It even announces that my test is tracking=
 origin/test.
>=20
> Yes that syntax works too (although I use origin/master since I am tr=
acking
> the main branch and not the remote "test" branch). Thank you very muc=
h.

So, do I understand it right that there is still no canonical syntax to
check out local branch tracking a remote one of the same name, without
spelling out the branch name twice?

--=20
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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