From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Mention the parameters that git-pull would need to be equivalent to a --track in the git-checkout docs
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:11:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190077881.22387.63.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190077493.22387.54.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org>
To be consistent with the git-branch docs.
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
---
Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 734928b..6f22626 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ OPTIONS
--track::
When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,
set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
- retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the
+ retrieve data from the remote branch, otherwise you'll have to
+ use "git pull <url>" explicitly. Set the
branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
'--track' were given.
--
1.5.2.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 1:04 [PATCH 0/4] Make the documentation consistent for --track and --notrack Federico Mena Quintero
2007-09-18 1:07 ` [PATCH 1/4] Mention that git-branch will not automatically check out the new branch Federico Mena Quintero
2007-09-18 1:10 ` [PATCH 2/4] Copy the docs for --track and --notrack from git-checkout to git-branch Federico Mena Quintero
2007-09-18 1:11 ` Federico Mena Quintero [this message]
2007-09-18 22:38 ` [PATCH 3/4] Mention the parameters that git-pull would need to be equivalent to a --track in the git-checkout docs Junio C Hamano
2007-10-02 23:30 ` [PATCH 0/4] Another round of the --track patches Federico Mena Quintero
2007-10-02 23:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs Federico Mena Quintero
2007-10-02 23:33 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add documentation for --track and --no-track to the git-branch docs Federico Mena Quintero
2007-10-02 23:35 ` Federico Mena Quintero
2007-10-02 23:34 ` [PATCH 3/4] Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branch Federico Mena Quintero
2007-10-02 23:36 ` [PATCH 4/4] Make git-pull complain and give advice when there is nothing to pull from Federico Mena Quintero
2007-09-18 1:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] Make git-pull give hints on what to do when there is no branch to merge from Federico Mena Quintero
2007-09-18 23:00 ` Junio C Hamano
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