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Describe git-clone's actual behavior in the summary

PATCH New Steven Grimm 1 participant 1 message Jun 15, 2016 Documentation

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PATCH 1/1 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.

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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

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