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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git checkout -b origin/mybranch origin/mybranch
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:40:21 +0100
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Heya,

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:36, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> =A0git complained that they need to specify the name with -b. =A0So t=
hey did:
>
> git checkout -b origin/somebranch origin/somebranch

Slight unrelated, do they know about -t?

$ git checkout -t origin/somebranch

It will automagically create a branch named 'somebranch' tracking
'origin/somebranch'!

--=20
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier