From 46749204e97290a0bf20e988d0356f0daba99347 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Federico Mena Quintero Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:34:32 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branch Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index c839961494..b7285bcdbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ It will start out with a head equal to the one given as . If no is given, the branch will be created with a head equal to that of the currently checked out branch. +Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the +working tree to it; use "git checkout " to switch to the +new branch. + When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that remote branch. If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it -- 2.11.4.GIT