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user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD

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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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2010-11-02 16:31:27 +01:00
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@ -367,13 +367,16 @@ above were created based on the remote branches at clone time and will
be updated by "git fetch" (hence "git pull") and "git push". See be updated by "git fetch" (hence "git pull") and "git push". See
<<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details. <<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details.
You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can You might want to build on one of these remote-tracking branches
examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag: on a branch of your own, just as you would for a tag:
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$ git checkout -b my-todo-copy origin/todo $ git checkout -b my-todo-copy origin/todo
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You can also check out "origin/todo" directly to examine it or
write a one-off patch. See <<detached-head,detached head>>.
Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default
to refer to the repository that you cloned from. to refer to the repository that you cloned from.