[PATCH 1/4] Mention that git-branch will not automatically check out the new branch
From: Federico Mena Quintero <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:35
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <redacted> --- Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 33bc31b..47e6f49 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ and option `-a` shows both. In its second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created. It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>. If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head -equal to that of the currently checked out branch. +equal to that of the currently checked out branch. Note that this +will create the new branch, but it will not switch the working tree to +it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the new branch. When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
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