Hi all- A coworker alerted me to some strange behavior with git push on tracking branches (maybe a documentation error?). Pro Git (http://progit.org/book/ch3-5.html) says: "To set up a local branch with a different name than the remote branch, you can easily use the first version with a different local branch name: $ git checkout -b sf origin/serverfix Branch sf set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/serverfix. Switched to a new branch "sf" Now, your local branch sf will automatically push to and pull from origin/serverfix." When I do this on my local machine (current master on Mac 10.6.4): snowg5-2:temp stephen$ git clone ssh://bash@penguin/home/git/repos/test-repo.git Cloning into test-repo... warning: templates not found /Users/stephen/share/git-core/templates remote: Counting objects: 100109, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23394/23394), done. remote: Total 100109 (delta 76733), reused 99567 (delta 76231) Receiving objects: 100% (100109/100109), 620.24 MiB | 28.36 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (76733/76733), done. snowg5-2:temp stephen$ cd test-repo snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ git checkout -b tmp origin/real-branch-name Branch tmp set up to track remote branch real-branch-name from origin. Switched to a new branch 'tmp' ... edit some files ... snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ git add -u . snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ git commit -m "made some changes" [tmp 0440ace] made some changes 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ git push Everything up-to-date snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ git rev-parse tmp 0440ace51b4ab18eee39305cd2af070f572e38d7 snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ git ls-remote origin real-branch-name 92ebff3a7c332079bcbf84e9cf699ab635e6ba3c refs/heads/real-branch-name snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ git --version git version 1.7.3.2.g9027fa snowg5-2:test-repo stephen$ Git doesn't push the change. If I either use a) git checkout --track origin/real-branch-name or b) git checkout -b real-branch-name origin/real-branch-name the push succeeds. Was the behavior of git push intentionally changed or is this a bug? Thanks, Stephen -- 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