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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 734928bf96..2e58481ed6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ OPTIONS --track:: When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch, set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically - retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the + 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. |