[PATCH 09/10] user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD
From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:55
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
From: Jonathan Nieder <redacted> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <redacted> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 62b3788..2b04e84 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt@@ -368,13 +368,16 @@ They are references that will be updated by "git fetch" (hence by "git pull"), and by "git push". See <<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details. -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 for 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.
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