On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:57:17PM -0400, Aghiles wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010, Randal L. Schwartz  wrote:
> >    git checkout -b test origin/test
> >    ...
> >    git pull
> >
> > And it seems to work.  It even announces that my test is tracking origin/test.
> 
> Yes that syntax works too (although I use origin/master since I am tracking
> the main branch and not the remote "test" branch). Thank you very much.

So, do I understand it right that there is still no canonical syntax to
check out local branch tracking a remote one of the same name, without
spelling out the branch name twice?

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