> I don't have .../.git/remotes directory in this setup?? For v1.5.0, git-clone sets up a remote repository so that you can look at what's going on remotely like this: git log origin/next To create your branch, you have to do something like git-checkout -b my-branch origin/next git-config add branch.my-branch.remote origin git-config add branch.my-branch.merge refs/heads/next Note that the branch in the last command is the remote branch name not the local name. With the current git "master" branch, you are able to do something like git-checkout --track -b my-branch origin/next and git-pull (with no arguments) will automatically pull from whatever branch you specified upon branch creation. --track also works with local branches, so you can have your topic branches track the tip of your current development branch, for example. Paolo - 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