Re: [git-users] does git clone automatically download branch information

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Stone
Yes this is normal behavior in regards to having to use branch -r to list the remote branches. How ever you should be able to use checkout -b remotename localname and git. Should auto setup tracking. If not there's a configuration line that can be added to you. .git/config file. You can reference t

[git-users] does git clone automatically download branch information

2011-10-25 Thread Sialnije
Hi List, Just started learning git. I noticed that right after running "git clone", the local depo only has history of the master branch. I have to run "git branch -r" and for each branch issue the "git checkout -- track -b ..." command. Is this normal behavior? Is there a command line option to