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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-06 00:52:57 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-06 18:17:14 -0800
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Set up remotes/origin to track all remote branches.
This implements the idea Daniel Barkalow came up with, to match the remotes/origin created by clone by default to the workflow I use myself in my guinea pig repository, to have me eat my own dog food. We probably would want to use either .git/refs/local/heads/* (idea by Linus) or .git/refs/heads/origin/* instead to reduce the local ref namespace pollution. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ This is to help the typical workflow of working off of the
remote `master` branch. Every time `git pull` without argument
is run, the progress on the remote `master` branch is tracked by
copying it into the local `origin` branch, and merged into the
-branch you are currently working on.
+branch you are currently working on. Remote branches other than
+`master` are also added there to be tracked.
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