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| author | Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> | 2008-08-09 16:00:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-08-11 16:37:28 -0700 |
| commit | bb0ceb6264fa1aea6e68e07cb13cd9a88473febb (patch) | |
| tree | 3bb234811f3e3ff627dd73d83e99cf0adfa6eb17 /Documentation/git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | ac39efbdf3d41443c40166b7578b7fb87c2f3b60 (diff) | |
| download | git-bb0ceb6264fa1aea6e68e07cb13cd9a88473febb.tar.gz | |
checkout --track: make up a sensible branch name if '-b' was omitted
What does the user most likely want with this command?
$ git checkout --track origin/next
Exactly. A branch called 'next', that tracks origin's branch 'next'.
Make it so.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-checkout.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 5aa69c0e12..43d4502547 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>] +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [--track | --no-track] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>] 'git checkout' [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>... DESCRIPTION @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ specified, <new_branch>. Using -b will cause <new_branch> to be created; in this case you can use the --track or --no-track options, which will be passed to `git branch`. +As a convenience, --track will default to create a branch whose +name is constructed from the specified branch name by stripping +the first namespace level. + When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from the index file (i.e. it runs `git checkout-index -f -u`), or @@ -59,6 +63,10 @@ OPTIONS 'git-checkout' and 'git-branch' to always behave as if '--no-track' were given. Set it to `always` if you want this behavior when the start-point is either a local or remote branch. ++ +If no '-b' option was given, a name will be made up for you, by stripping +the part up to the first slash of the tracked branch. For example, if you +called 'git checkout --track origin/next', the branch name will be 'next'. --no-track:: Ignore the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable. |