Re: How to specify remote branch correctly

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:13:08 +1100, Andrew Ardill [off-list ref] wrote:

On 17 December 2012 16:06, Woody Wu [off-list ref] wrote:

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1. git checkout foo.
By this command, I think I am checking out files in my local branch
named foo, and after that I also switch to the branch. Right?

Correct. Your working directory (files) switch over to whatever your
local branch 'foo' points to, and your HEAD is updated to point to
your local branch 'foo'. Unless something goes wrong/you have
conflicting files/uncommitted changes etc.

'git checkout foo' has special meaning if a local branch with that name
doesn't exist but there is a remote branch with that name. In that case it's
equivalent to: git checkout -t -b foo origin/foo. Because that's what people
usually want.