set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the
branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
- want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
- '--track' were given.
+ want git-checkout and git-branch to behave as if
+ '--track' were given when you branch from a remote
+ tracking branch.
--no-track::
When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,