From ac150747d7cc62d53daf9f7c128a0fa88a399f44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Federico Mena Quintero Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:32:32 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 734928bf96..2e58481ed6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -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 " 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. -- 2.11.4.GIT