Ok, in my own inimitable way, I think I have figured this out. Please let me know if this is dumb (output of commands below clipped): % git --bare init-db --shared % GIT_DIR=. git fetch git://source/public/project topic:topic % cd there % git clone /repos/git/project % cd project % git checkout topic warning: You do not appear to currently be on a branch. warning: Forcing checkout of topic^0. If this is ok, this appears to give me the result I want ... I think. Thanks to all for hand-holding the blind and if someone already mentioned this option, apologies for missing it. Bill On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 13:36:50 (-0600) Bill Lear writes: >On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 20:15:37 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes: > ... - 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