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authorLibravatar J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-04-16 00:37:12 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-04-16 01:10:28 -0700
commitb71083043c66b241713ff0698f113eb7c8bc9a90 (patch)
tree24e6051bec85b2409cde7c9a3132a5be0089a9ae
parentDocumentation: clarify git-checkout -f, minor editing (diff)
downloadtgif-b71083043c66b241713ff0698f113eb7c8bc9a90.tar.xz
Documentation: clarify track/no-track option.
Fix the description of the --no-track option so it no longer says the opposite of what was intended. Also mention branch.autosetupmerge explicitly. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index b889688b40..4f2e847dc3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -49,13 +49,17 @@ OPTIONS
--track::
When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,
- setup so that git-pull will automatically retrieve data from
- the remote branch.
+ set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
+ retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the
+ branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
+ want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
+ '--track' were given.
--no-track::
When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,
- force that git-pull will automatically retrieve data from
- the remote branch independent of the configuration settings.
+ set up configuration so that git-pull will not retrieve data
+ from the remote branch, ignoring the branch.autosetupmerge
+ configuration variable.
-l::
Create the new branch's ref log. This activates recording of