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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2007-01-07 07:43:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2007-01-07 07:43:58 +0000 |
| commit | 79770b6ed3e6b40355c01e4d1c00c0da5c827086 (patch) | |
| tree | 2550cb59cfca9626574da47479dfb9f74cde8df2 /git-clone.txt | |
| parent | a8d072a1622de0cd74738fa0750ab149433b7cc8 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-79770b6ed3e6b40355c01e4d1c00c0da5c827086.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-clone.txt b/git-clone.txt index e7085fdf5..a78207461 100644 --- a/git-clone.txt +++ b/git-clone.txt @@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ DESCRIPTION Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository -(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out a master -branch equal to the cloned repository's master branch. +(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out an initial +branch equal to the cloned repository's currently active branch. After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the -current branch. +current master branch, if any. This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and |