On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 20:55:31 UTC-7, Aneesh wrote:
>
> [..]
> > and a few variants, I can't find the syntax in "git help clone"
>
> 'git clone -b <branchname> ...' basically means to checkout
> <branchname> (in a non-bare repository), instead of whatever was being
> pointed to by HEAD in the cloned repository. This does NOT mean that
> git will get only the <branchname> branch and not others...
>
> After cloning, just to 'git branch -r' to see a list of all
> remote-tracking branches - i.e. all branches that existed in the
> cloned repo when you had cloned it...
>
> Hope that helps..
>
> regards,
> Aneesh
>
hmm, so after you clone a repo, what's the effective difference between
"checkout foo" and "checkout -b foo"?
git help doesn't help me with that:
If -b is given, a new branch is created as if git-branch(1) were
called and
then checked out; in this case you can use the --track or
--no-track options,
which will be passed to git branch. As a convenience, --track
without -b
implies branch creation; see the description of --track below.
if branch "foo" doesn't exist, the checkout will fail? You can't
accidentally get name collisions between local foo and remote foo?
thanks,
Thufir
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