Re: Pulling peer's branch and getting tracking branch created

Bill Lear [off-list ref] writes:

On Monday, February 26, 2007 at 16:59:27 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes:

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Bill Lear [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I can't seem to figure out the correct magic to get my buddy's branch,
and create the appropriate tracking branch at the same time without
doing a clone.

I'll cheat and ask "git show b6f5da1e" ;-).

$ git remote add -f -m master bob ../bob.git/

which should add:

[remote "bob"]
       	url = ../bob.git/
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bob/*

to .git/config, and perform the initial "git fetch bob" so that
bob's heads appear under your .git/refs/remotes/bob/*, iow,
after this, you can ask:

$ git branch -r
  bob/HEAD
         bob/master
         bob/topic-1
         bob/topic-2

Ok, and then:

% git checkout -b topic-1 bob/topic-1

Gets me onto a topic branch ...

So, this does do what I've asked, and more: however, how can I get it
to do only the one branch that I want and not all of the others?  If
this part is really annoyingly hard and/or stupid, don't hesitate to
say so.

This time, I'll cheat and ask you to ask "git show b6f5da1e"
;-).