user-manual: remote-tracking can be checked out, with detached HEAD

jrn · gitster · commit 45dfd40396b4 · 2010-11-03T09:20:48.000-07:00
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder &lt;jrnieder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy &lt;Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -367,13 +367,16 @@ above were created based on the remote branches at clone time and will
 be updated by "git fetch" (hence "git pull") and "git push". See
 <<Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch>> for details.
 
-You cannot check out these remote-tracking branches, but you can
-examine them on a branch of your own, just as you would a tag:
+You might want to build on one of these remote-tracking branches
+on a branch of your own, just as you would for a tag:
 
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 $ git checkout -b my-todo-copy origin/todo
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+You can also check out "origin/todo" directly to examine it or
+write a one-off patch.  See <<detached-head,detached head>>.
+
 Note that the name "origin" is just the name that git uses by default
 to refer to the repository that you cloned from.
 
