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| author | Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com> | 2007-10-03 03:32:32 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-10-03 04:26:40 +0400 |
| commit | ac150747d7cc62d53daf9f7c128a0fa88a399f44 (patch) | |
| tree | 02901b62ca1416cf84a506cedb21c62a5fa368ab /Documentation | |
| parent | 6ea9c7eb2713d55f9af7522e878e6912972bb889 (diff) | |
Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs.
The documentation used to say what the option does, but it
didn't mention a use case.
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
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. |