On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:05:17AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > git-clone http://git.catalyst.net.nz/git/moodle-r2.git > git-branch --track origin/mdl18-olpc my18-olpc Your arguments to git-branch are backwards. It should be: git-branch --track my18-olpc origin/mdl18-olpc Also note that --track didn't show up until 1.5.1. Other than that, it should do what you expect (check out your .git/config before and after to see the impact of --track). -Peff - 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