[PATCH 2/4] Copy the docs for --track and --notrack from git-checkout to git-branch
From: Federico Mena Quintero <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:35
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The docs for git-branch did not mention --track and --notrack in the OPTIONS section. Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <redacted> --- Documentation/git-branch.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 47e6f49..8b98b52 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt@@ -93,6 +93,20 @@ OPTIONS --no-abbrev:: Display the full sha1s in output listing rather than abbreviating them. +--track:: + Set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically + retrieve data from the remote branch, otherwise you'll have to + use "git pull <url>" explicitly. Set the + branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you + want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if + '--track' were given. + +--no-track:: + When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch, + set up configuration so that git-pull will not retrieve data + from the remote branch, ignoring the branch.autosetupmerge + configuration variable. + <branchname>:: The name of the branch to create or delete. The new branch name must pass all checks defined by
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