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| author | Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> | 2007-01-05 17:52:20 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-06 10:40:54 -0800 |
| commit | 1170e8026ae507c510619fceff969b1cf2900a28 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d150439eb8add97b97962a4f74e68de8715e7b7 | |
| parent | f08b3b0e2e9ad87767d80ff03b013c686e08ba4b (diff) | |
| download | git-1170e8026ae507c510619fceff969b1cf2900a28.tar.gz | |
Describe git-clone's actual behavior in the summary
If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository,
git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's
"master"
branch. This patch describes the actual behavior.
Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index e7085fdf5f..a78207461d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ DESCRIPTION Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository -(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out a master -branch equal to the cloned repository's master branch. +(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out an initial +branch equal to the cloned repository's currently active branch. After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the -current branch. +current master branch, if any. This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and |