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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Creating tracked branches
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:47:11 +0200
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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 branch -r
  origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  origin/html
  origin/maint
  origin/man
  origin/master
  origin/next
  origin/pu
  origin/todo
$ git checkout -t origin/maint
Branch maint set up to track remote branch maint from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'maint'

Andreas.

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