User manual: "You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches"
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From: Jonathan Nieder <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:49
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documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Thore Husfeldt wrote:
Also, in the user-manual.txt:
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origin/todo ------------------------------------------------ You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag:That’s just wrong, isn’t it?
That's historical baggage, I'm afraid. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted> ---
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 77eb483..9f82fa6 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -359,13 +359,16 @@ $ git branch -r origin/todo ------------------------------------------------ -You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can -examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag: +You might want to build on one of these remote-tracking branches +on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag: ------------------------------------------------ $ git checkout -b my-todo-copy origin/todo ------------------------------------------------ +You can also check out "origin/todo" directly to examine it or +write a one-off patch. See <<detached-head,detached head>>. + Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default to refer to the repository that you cloned from.