Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.0-106-gd6096
diff --git a/git-checkout.html b/git-checkout.html index afa2b48..68dcbc1 100644 --- a/git-checkout.html +++ b/git-checkout.html
@@ -395,9 +395,16 @@ given. Set it to <tt>always</tt> if you want this behavior when the start-point is either a local or remote branch. </p> -<div class="para"><p>If no <em>-b</em> option was given, a name will be made up for you, by stripping -the part up to the first slash of the tracked branch. For example, if you -called <em>git checkout --track origin/next</em>, the branch name will be <em>next</em>.</p></div> +<div class="para"><p>If no <em>-b</em> option was given, the name of the new branch will be +derived from the remote branch, by attempting to guess the name +of the branch on remote system. If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" +are prefixed, it is stripped away, and then the part up to the +next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. +This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching +off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even +"refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above +guessing results in an empty name, the guessing is aborted. You can +exlicitly give a name with <em>-b</em> in such a case.</p></div> </dd> <dt> --no-track @@ -596,7 +603,7 @@ </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-text"> -Last updated 2008-08-20 09:13:27 UTC +Last updated 2008-08-24 03:33:55 UTC </div> </div> </body>
