Re: Pulling peer's branch and getting tracking branch created

[Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>]

On Monday, February 26, 2007 at 16:59:27 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:
>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:
>
>> I can't seem to figure out the correct magic to get my buddy's branch,
>> and create the appropriate tracking branch at the same time without
>> doing a clone.
>
>I'll cheat and ask "git show b6f5da1e" ;-).
>
>	$ git remote add -f -m master bob ../bob.git/
>
>which should add:
>
>	[remote "bob"]
>        	url = ../bob.git/
>		fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bob/*
>
>to .git/config, and perform the initial "git fetch bob" so that
>bob's heads appear under your .git/refs/remotes/bob/*, iow,
>after this, you can ask:
>
>	$ git branch -r
>	  bob/HEAD
>          bob/master
>          bob/topic-1
>          bob/topic-2

Ok, and then:

% git checkout -b topic-1 bob/topic-1

Gets me onto a topic branch ...

So, this does do what I've asked, and more: however, how can I get it
to do only the one branch that I want and not all of the others?  If
this part is really annoyingly hard and/or stupid, don't hesitate to
say so.


Bill