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Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:27:52 +0100
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On 1/30/07, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> So here's a scenario I'm in right now. A user of my software reported a
> bug. I put together some patches to fix the bug and pushed them out as
> a new branch "proposed-fix" that I'd like the user to test.

Actually it is the same "problem" as when you want to work on the
non-HEAD remote branch.

Currently I do (with current git):

git clone git://...
git checkout -b ${branch} origin/${branch}
git config branch.${branch}.merge refs/heads/${branch}

then they could update this with just:

git pull

It would be nice if:

git clone -b ${branch} git://...

would be equivalent of the above three commands.

Santi