Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-branch.txt | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt index 33bc31b..47e6f49 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ and option `-a` shows both. In its second form, a new branch named <branchname> will be created. It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>. If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head -equal to that of the currently checked out branch. +equal to that of the currently checked out branch. Note that this +will create the new branch, but it will not switch the working tree to +it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the new branch. When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that -- 1.5.2.4 - 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
