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Subject: Re: Pulling peer's branch and getting tracking branch created
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:59:27 -0800
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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
          ...