Re: git clone operation

["Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>]

On 2008.08.17 12:23:57 -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Mike Gant <mwgant@gmail.com> writes:
> > I realize that I can create a new local branch that is based off the
> > desired branch:
> > 
> > $ git-checkout -b master origin/master
> > 
> > Is this the accepted method for obtaining the desired branch?
> 
> You can use (with new anough Git)
> 
>   $ git checkout --track -b master origin/master
> 
> to setup repository in such way that "git pull" on 'master'
> would know that it is meant to fetch from 'origin' and merge
> 'origin/master'.

branch.autosetupmerge is set to true by default, so for remote branches
--track is the default anyway (since 1.5.5 IIRC). So only an old enough
git would actually require --track, unless you changed the config ;-)

Björn