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author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-08-24 03:34:11 +0000 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2008-08-24 03:34:11 +0000 |
commit | 043628ece853c662b2290c92ae0920922e80f131 (patch) | |
tree | f54857527f13714852efcc71c9eb087c0adad9e3 /git-checkout.txt | |
parent | 3f2f6e5d768e1e09e959ec54a26e552b5dfc4f14 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/git-checkout.txt b/git-checkout.txt index 43d450254..be54a0299 100644 --- a/git-checkout.txt +++ b/git-checkout.txt @@ -64,9 +64,16 @@ OPTIONS given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the start-point is either a local or remote branch. + -If no '-b' option was given, a name will be made up for you, by stripping -the part up to the first slash of the tracked branch. For example, if you -called 'git checkout --track origin/next', the branch name will be 'next'. +If no '-b' option was given, the name of the new branch will be +derived from the remote branch, by attempting to guess the name +of the branch on remote system. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" +are prefixed, it is stripped away, and then the part up to the +next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. +This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching +off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even +"refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above +guessing results in an empty name, the guessing is aborted. You can +exlicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. --no-track:: Ignore the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable. |