> 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. <shameless-advertisement-of-my-patches> 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. </shameless-advertisement-of-my-patches> 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