From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branch
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:34:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1191368072.3776.201.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191367817.3776.192.camel@cacharro.xalalinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
---
Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index e9c12f9..53c1158 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>.
If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head
equal to that of the currently checked out branch.
+Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
+working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
+new branch.
+
When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the
branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
remote branch. If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it
--
1.5.2.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 23:33 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 ` [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 ` Federico Mena Quintero [this message]
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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