From: Steven Grimm Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 01:52:20 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Describe git-clone's actual behavior in the summary X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc1~84 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1170e8026ae507c510619fceff969b1cf2900a28;p=git.git Describe git-clone's actual behavior in the summary If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository, git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's "master" branch. This patch describes the actual behavior. Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index e7085fdf5..a78207461 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ DESCRIPTION Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository -(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out a master -branch equal to the cloned repository's master branch. +(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out an initial +branch equal to the cloned repository's currently active branch. After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the -current branch. +current master branch, if any. This default configuration is achieved by creating references to the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and