I have two remotes configured. One is "origin" which has a local tracking branch "master" for "origin/master". The other is "mirror" which has option mirror = true While on the local branch master, I issue the command: $ git checkout -b wip The branch "wip" is created and oddly configured to track the "mirror" remote. Here is the .git/config after the "wip" branch was created: [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* url = ssh://myserver.com/srv/git/myproject.git [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master [remote "mirror"] url = ssh://chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx/srv/git/mirrors/chris/myproject.git fetch = +refs/*:refs/* mirror = true [branch "wip"] remote = mirror merge = refs/heads/master $ git --version git version 1.7.4.1 $ git config branch.autosetupmerge $ I do not expect this "wip" branch to be tracking the "mirror" remote, but rather "origin", according to the documentation. chris -- 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