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| author | Federico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com> | 2007-10-02 18:34:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-10-02 17:27:00 -0700 |
| commit | 46749204e97290a0bf20e988d0356f0daba99347 (patch) | |
| tree | c6419ee01439045b6239c8e12cb99e680268a356 | |
| parent | 84d176cef65ad23e11643d463c69ad313b728eda (diff) | |
| download | git-46749204e97290a0bf20e988d0356f0daba99347.tar.gz | |
Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branch
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 |
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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 <start-point>. If no <start-point> 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 <newbranch>" 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 |