Re: Git repository and branches ?

[Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>]

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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> To switch your working directory to one of those branches, you can use
> the git-checkout command.  It's possibly to simply checkout one of the
> origin branches (e.g., "git checkout origin/lexbind"), but generally
> you don't want to do unless you're not going to do any modifications
> (the reason is that "origin/" branches are supposed to represent the
> pristine contents of the repo you cloned from, to make future
> interaction easier).  So the more usual method is to create a local
> branch which tracks the given origin branch, e.g.:
>
>    git checkout -b lexbind origin/lexbind

If you want to track changes made to that branch in the remote repo, you
can alternatively do:

git branch --track lexbind origin/lexbind

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