To setup remote tracking of the branch stable/v1.0 git checkout with --track option can be used: git checkout -b stable/v1.0 --track origin/stable/v1.0 Otherwise when git checkout -b stable/v1.0 is used branch may not be properly set up to track it's remote counterpart (given git option) and users may be confused due to no files present in the folder, but README. Signed-off-by: Piotr Gregor <pgregor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- README | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index a618eb5..47e3e54 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,3 +4,10 @@ The master branch is unused. You should use an existing branch instead. The stable/v1.0 branch contains the old stable version. The unstable/devel branches contain the development versions. + +To checkout stable/v1.0 and setup remote tracking to /origin/stable/v1.0 please do: + git checkout -b stable/v1.0 origin/stable/v1.0 +or + git checkout -b stable/v1.0 --track origin/stable/v1.0 +and similarly for the unstable/devel/v1.1.1 branch please do: + git checkout -b unstable/devel/v1.1.1 --track origin/unstable/devel/v1.1.1 -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
