Hi, maybe I'm daft, or cogito has eaten my brain. The task at hand is really simple: clone from repo X, tracking branch Y (where branch Y != HEAD). The repo is http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git , the branch is mdl18-olpc . With cg, this is trivial: cg-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git#mdl18-olpc which automagically gives me a "master" and "origin" pair of heads that do the right thing. Specifically, cg-update does the right thing. With git 1.5.x, I managed to figure out that this is wrong. : git-clone --origin mdl18-olpc \ http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git and now I am trying to see if some incantation around this works git-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git git-branch --track origin/mdl18-olpc my18-olpc But it isn't working, and I'm reading git/Documentation for git-branch and git-remote but I can't find it. I don't care about any other branch (though if they are there, fine!). Is there a trivially simple answer. (Cogito has eaten my brain probably. For a long time I've always cloned with cogito just for the sake of this convenience, even if I was going to use git mostly when working with the code. Now I'm working on a server that only has git, so I thought 1.5.x would make this trivial...) cheers, martin - 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