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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
<<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details.
You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can
examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag:
You might want to build on one of these remote-tracking branches
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
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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
to refer to the repository that you cloned from.