Re: [RFC] git-clone: add --track <headname> support

Martin Langhoff [off-list ref] writes:

If your tree is reasonably clean (so that the implied git-checkout won't
fail), then on 1.5.1 this Just Works

        git branch --track <branch> origin/<branch>
        git pull # as needed

At least in theory, with branch.autosetupmerge, you shouldn't
even have to say --track there.  I've never used it myself,
though.