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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-02-11 13:23:06 -0800
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-02-11 13:23:06 -0800
commit04f32cf1b31717bf0b7cbbc00783a4107cc19cfd (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'maint' (diff)
parentconfig.c: guard config parser from value=NULL (diff)
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: (35 commits) config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL imap-send.c: guard config parser from value=NULL wt-status.c: guard config parser from value=NULL setup.c: guard config parser from value=NULL remote.c: guard config parser from value=NULL merge-recursive.c: guard config parser from value=NULL http.c: guard config parser from value=NULL help.c: guard config parser from value=NULL git.c: guard config parser from value=NULL diff.c: guard config parser from value=NULL convert.c: guard config parser from value=NULL connect.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-tag.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-show-branch.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-reflog.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-commit.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-branch.c: guard config parser from value=NULL ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index f920c04cc0..7e8874acaa 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
new branch.
-When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the
+When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git sets up the
branch so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
-remote branch. If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it
-the default using the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration
-flag. Otherwise, it can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
+remote branch. If this behavior is not desired, it is possible to
+disable it using the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration
+flag. That setting can be overridden by using the `--track`
and `--no-track` options.
With a '-m' or '-M' option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>.
@@ -108,10 +108,11 @@ OPTIONS
Set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
retrieve data from the remote branch. Use this if you always
pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you
- don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" explicitly. Set the
- branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
+ don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" explicitly.
+ This behavior is the default. Set the
+ branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to false if you
want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
- '--track' were given.
+ '--no-track' were given.
--no-track::
When a branch is created off a remote branch,