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From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs.
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:32:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191367952.3776.196.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191367817.3776.192.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org>

The documentation used to say what the option does, but it
didn't mention a use case.

Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
---
 Documentation/git-checkout.txt |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 734928b..dbd1a4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ 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.  Use this if you always
+	pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you
+	don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" 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

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-02 23:31 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 ` [PATCH 3/4] Mention the parameters that git-pull would need to be equivalent to a --track in the git-checkout docs Federico Mena Quintero
2007-09-18 22:38   ` 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       ` Federico Mena Quintero [this message]
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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