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authorFederico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com>2007-10-02 18:32:32 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-10-02 17:26:40 -0700
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Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs.
The documentation used to say what the option does, but it didn't mention a use case. Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ 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. Use this if you always
+ pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you
+ don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" 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.