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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update git-pull.txt for clone's new default behavior
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:10:44 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:01:15PM -0800, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> --- "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> > -The common `Pull: master:origin` mapping of a remote `master`
> > -branch to a local `origin` branch, which is then merged to a
> > -local development branch, again typically named `master`, is made
> > -when you run `git clone` for you to follow this pattern.
> 
> So is this no longer the case?

Right; that mapping is no longer what git clone sets up for you.

> Can someone please bring me up to date?
> 
> What is going on?

The simplest way to understand the current behavior is probably to
install the latest git, read the git-clone man page, clone a new
repository, and take a look at it.

Remote branches are stored in separate namespaces under
.git/refs/remotes/, so that they don't muck up your view of your local
branches, and so git can enforce different policies for them (such as
forbidding committing to them).

--b.