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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2010-11-02 16:31:27 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-11-03 09:20:48 -0700 |
| commit | 45dfd40396b47720387c31c4140eb3aebdf06cf7 (patch) | |
| tree | f7c6d2b05416b2011ef6c7d6a9aadaa68031b37a /Documentation/user-manual.txt | |
| parent | user-manual.txt: explain better the remote(-tracking) branch terms (diff) | |
| download | tgif-45dfd40396b47720387c31c4140eb3aebdf06cf7.tar.xz | |
user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/user-manual.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 85b3175ff6..f13a846131 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -367,13 +367,16 @@ above were created based on the remote branches at clone time and will be updated by "git fetch" (hence "git pull") and "git push". See <<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details. -You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can -examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag: +You might want to build on one of these remote-tracking branches +on a branch of your own, just as you would for a tag: ------------------------------------------------ $ git checkout -b my-todo-copy origin/todo ------------------------------------------------ +You can also check out "origin/todo" directly to examine it or +write a one-off patch. See <<detached-head,detached head>>. + Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default to refer to the repository that you cloned from. |