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[PATCH 3/4] Mention the parameters that git-pull would need to be equivalent to a --track in the git-checkout docs

From: Federico Mena Quintero <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:35
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

To be consistent with the git-branch docs.

Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-checkout.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 734928b..6f22626 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ OPTIONS
 --track::
 	When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,
 	set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
-	retrieve data from the remote branch.  Set the
+	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.
-- 
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