Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-branch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 8d72bb93680332da560b5b1e55a3d42c4755247c..5e81aa4ee15af50bd47aa9b26ffd566328f3c35e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -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
@@ -41,7 +45,7 @@ to happen.
 
 With a `-d` or `-D` option, `<branchname>` will be deleted.  You may
 specify more than one branch for deletion.  If the branch currently
-has a ref log then the ref log will also be deleted. Use -r together with -d
+has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted. Use -r together with -d
 to delete remote-tracking branches.
 
 
@@ -54,9 +58,9 @@ OPTIONS
        Delete a branch irrespective of its index status.
 
 -l::
-       Create the branch's ref log.  This activates recording of
-       all changes to made the branch ref, enabling use of date
-       based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@{yesterday}".
+       Create the branch's reflog.  This activates recording of
+       all changes made to the branch ref, enabling use of date
+       based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@\{yesterday}".
 
 -f::
        Force the creation of a new branch even if it means deleting
@@ -81,7 +85,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -a::
        List both remote-tracking branches and local branches.
 
--v::
+-v, --verbose::
        Show sha1 and commit subject line for each head.
 
 --abbrev=<length>::
@@ -91,6 +95,21 @@ OPTIONS
 --no-abbrev::
        Display the full sha1s in output listing rather than abbreviating them.
 
+--track::
+       Set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
+       retrieve data from the remote branch.  Use this if you always
+       pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you
+       don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" explicitly.  Set the
+       branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
+       want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
+       '--track' were given.
+
+--no-track::
+       When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,
+       set up configuration so that git-pull will not retrieve data
+       from the remote branch, ignoring the branch.autosetupmerge
+       configuration variable.
+
 <branchname>::
        The name of the branch to create or delete.
        The new branch name must pass all checks defined by
@@ -130,12 +149,12 @@ Delete unneeded branch::
 ------------
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
 $ cd my.git
-$ git branch -d -r todo html man   <1>
-$ git branch -D test               <2>
+$ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man   <1>
+$ git branch -D test                                    <2>
 ------------
 +
-<1> delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
-<2> delete "test" branch even if the "master" branch does not have all
+<1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
+<2> Delete "test" branch even if the "master" branch does not have all
 commits from test branch.