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

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

> 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.

This time, I'll cheat and ask you to ask "git show b6f5da1e"
;-).