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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. |