From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>,
"Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>,
Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
git list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Creating tracked branches
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:17:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100422141721.GK3563@machine.or.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sk6n7g68.fsf@igel.home>
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:47:11PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>
> > P.S.: The "--track without -b implies branch creation" sentence in
> > git-checkout(1) seems to be plain wrong?
>
> $ git checkout -t origin/maint
> Branch maint set up to track remote branch maint from origin.
> Switched to a new branch 'maint'
Ah! I have not read all the gory details carefully enough. Wonderful,
so this would be:
> (i) If you do `checkout B`, it will track remote branch B if it
> exists.
>
> (ii) If you do `checkout -b B`, it will never auto-track anything.
>
> (iii) If you do `git checkout -t -b B`, it will auto-track your
> current _local_ branch.
(iv) If you do `git checkout -t R`, it will track branch R, deriving
local branch name B from it.
--
Petr "Pasky" Baudis
http://pasky.or.cz/ | "Ars longa, vita brevis." -- Hippocrates
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-22 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-21 21:13 git pull behavior changed? Aghiles
2010-04-21 21:22 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-21 21:34 ` Aghiles
2010-04-21 21:55 ` Aghiles
2010-04-21 21:59 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-04-21 21:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-21 22:04 ` Aghiles
2010-04-21 22:23 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-04-21 22:41 ` Aghiles
2010-04-22 0:01 ` Jeff King
2010-04-22 0:13 ` Aghiles
2010-04-22 0:41 ` Jeff King
2010-04-22 1:27 ` Aghiles
2010-04-22 2:10 ` Jeff King
2010-04-21 23:27 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-04-21 23:57 ` Aghiles
2010-04-22 8:10 ` Petr Baudis
2010-04-22 8:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-22 11:49 ` Creating tracked branches Petr Baudis
2010-04-22 13:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-04-22 14:17 ` Petr Baudis [this message]
2010-04-22 21:13 ` git pull behavior changed? Aghiles
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