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authorFederico Mena Quintero <federico@novell.com>2007-10-02 18:34:32 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-10-02 17:27:00 -0700
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Note that git-branch will not automatically checkout the new branch
Signed-off-by: Federico Mena Quintero <federico@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ It will start out with a head equal to the one given as <start-point>.
If no <start-point> is given, the branch will be created with a head
equal to that of the currently checked out branch.
+Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
+working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
+new branch.
+
When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the
branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
remote branch. If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it