On 06/15/2012 09:29 AM, Niels de Vos wrote: >> AFAIK the -b and -t functions are not available in a single command, because >> that would be convenient and this is git. ;) > > Oh, but you can do that: > > git checkout -t -b release-3.3 origin/release-3.3 I guess I should have tried it before I said anything. Last time I did, it failed (perhaps for an unrelated reason) and I've just applied the obvious workaround ever since. Thanks!