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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-08-02 16:01:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-08-02 16:01:45 -0700 |
| commit | f09b7cd0fc08d1df0fbd5c756672772049836b7a (patch) | |
| tree | f5407aed048f255184084b9127f43dbf337eb27a /git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | 1ff0338e53a8f0c62e5a9370e770e20058c5ad1e (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-f09b7cd0fc08d1df0fbd5c756672772049836b7a.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-checkout.txt b/git-checkout.txt index ca5fc9c79..9db02928c 100644 --- a/git-checkout.txt +++ b/git-checkout.txt @@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ equivalent to $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch> ------------ + +If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by +the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that +one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `<branch>` isn't +unique across all remotes. Set it to +e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote +branches from there if `<branch>` is ambiguous but exists on the +'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in +linkgit:git-config[1]. ++ You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, |