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Cc: Mike Gant <mwgant@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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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 th=
e
> > desired branch:
> >=20
> > $ git-checkout -b master origin/master
> >=20
> > Is this the accepted method for obtaining the desired branch?
>=20
> You can use (with new anough Git)
>=20
>   $ git checkout --track -b master origin/master
>=20
> 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 ;-)

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