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Subject: Re: pushing to a remote branch that one does not own
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> Am I strictly limited to committing only on the master / origin/master
> branched, and forced to make a new branch for every branch that I cloned
> from the remote repo, or is there a way of making the heads of the remote
> branches visible as local too? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Iannis Zannos
> 

Maybe you should read "Pro Git" book chapter 3 "Git Branching"
http://progit.org/book/ch3-0.html
(and look forward for chapter 3.5 "Remote Branches")?