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diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index dd92cdefc2..fefd2985f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -12,7 +12,22 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Clones a repository into a newly created directory. +Clones a repository into a newly created directory. All remote +branch heads are copied under `$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/`, except +that the remote `master` is also copied to `origin` branch. + +In addition, `$GIT_DIR/remotes/origin` file is set up to have +this line: + + Pull: master:origin + +This is to help the typical workflow of working off of the +remote `master` branch. Every time `git pull` without argument +is run, the progress on the remote `master` branch is tracked by +copying it into the local `origin` branch, and merged into the +branch you are currently working on. Remote branches other than +`master` are also added there to be tracked. + OPTIONS ------- @@ -28,9 +43,10 @@ OPTIONS --shared:: -s:: When the repository to clone is on the local machine, - instead of using hard links automatically setup + instead of using hard links, automatically setup .git/objects/info/alternatives to share the objects - with the source repository + with the source repository. The resulting repository + starts out without any object of its own. --quiet:: -q:: @@ -49,14 +65,13 @@ OPTIONS <repository>:: The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. It can - be an "rsync://host/dir" URL, an "http://host/dir" URL, - or [<host>:]/dir notation that is used by 'git-clone-pack'. - Currently http transport is not supported. + be any URL git-fetch supports. <directory>:: The name of a new directory to be cloned into. It is an error to specify an existing directory. + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |