Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I can't seem to figure out the correct magic to get my buddy's branch, > and create the appropriate tracking branch at the same time without > doing a clone. I'll cheat and ask "git show b6f5da1e" ;-). $ git remote add -f -m master bob ../bob.git/ which should add: [remote "bob"] url = ../bob.git/ fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/bob/* to .git/config, and perform the initial "git fetch bob" so that bob's heads appear under your .git/refs/remotes/bob/*, iow, after this, you can ask: $ git branch -r bob/HEAD bob/master bob/topic-1 bob/topic-2 ... - 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