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authorLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2007-10-16 00:15:25 -0400
committerLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2007-10-16 00:15:25 -0400
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There's a number of tricky conflicts between master and this topic right now due to the rewrite of builtin-push. Junio must have handled these via rerere; I'd rather not deal with them again so I'm pre-merging master into the topic. Besides this topic somehow started to depend on the strbuf series that was in next, but is now in master. It no longer compiles on its own without the strbuf API. * master: (184 commits) Whip post 1.5.3.4 maintenance series into shape. Minor usage update in setgitperms.perl manual: use 'URL' instead of 'url'. manual: add some markup. manual: Fix example finding commits referencing given content. Fix wording in push definition. Fix some typos, punctuation, missing words, minor markup. manual: Fix or remove em dashes. Add a --dry-run option to git-push. Add a --dry-run option to git-send-pack. Fix in-place editing functions in convert.c instaweb: support for Ruby's WEBrick server instaweb: allow for use of auto-generated scripts Add 'git-p4 commit' as an alias for 'git-p4 submit' hg-to-git speedup through selectable repack intervals git-svn: respect Subversion's [auth] section configuration values gtksourceview2 support for gitview fix contrib/hooks/post-receive-email hooks.recipients error message Support cvs via git-shell rebase -i: use diff plumbing instead of porcelain ... Conflicts: Makefile builtin-push.c rsh.c
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@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>.
If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head
equal to that of the currently checked out branch.
+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
branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
remote branch. If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it
@@ -91,6 +95,21 @@ OPTIONS
--no-abbrev::
Display the full sha1s in output listing rather than abbreviating them.
+--track::
+ 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
+ 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,
+ set up configuration so that git-pull will not retrieve data
+ from the remote branch, ignoring the branch.autosetupmerge
+ configuration variable.
+
<branchname>::
The name of the branch to create or delete.
The new branch name must pass all checks defined by