[Users] Checking out branches with GetComponents

Barry Wardell barry.wardell at aei.mpg.de
Tue Jun 15 10:37:27 CDT 2010


On 15/06/2010 17:20, Bruno C. Mundim wrote:
> You probably want to checkout with --track so you can follow any 
> possible changes in that branch:
>
> git checkout --track -b ET_2010_06 origin/ET_2010_06
In general, yes. Although when you give git checkout a remote branch 
(origin/ET_2010_06) as a starting point, then it automatically sets up 
the remote tracking appropriately and so I think --track is not needed 
in this case.


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