Also, in the user-manual.txt: > Examining branches from a remote repository > ------------------------------------------- > > The "master" branch that was created at the time you cloned is a copy > of the HEAD in the repository that you cloned from. That repository > may also have had other branches, though, and your local repository > keeps branches that track each of those remote branches, which you > can view using the "-r" option to linkgit:git-branch[1]: > > ------------------------------------------------ > $ git branch -r > origin/HEAD > origin/html > origin/maint > origin/man > origin/master > origin/next > origin/pu > origin/todo > ------------------------------------------------ > > 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: That’s just wrong, isn’t it? You absolutely can check out a remote-tracking branch.-- 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