On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:57:17PM -0400, Aghiles wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > git checkout -b test origin/test > > ... > > git pull > > > > And it seems to work. It even announces that my test is tracking origin/test. > > Yes that syntax works too (although I use origin/master since I am tracking > the main branch and not the remote "test" branch). Thank you very much. So, do I understand it right that there is still no canonical syntax to check out local branch tracking a remote one of the same name, without spelling out the branch name twice? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis http://pasky.or.cz/ | "Ars longa, vita brevis." -- Hippocrates -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html