[yocto] checking out branches: tracking vs. tags

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, jfabernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
> the Development Manual Appendix A
> (http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/dev-manual/dev-manual.html#dev-manual-bsp-appendix),
> I see the statement:
>
>  $ git checkout denzil-7.0 -b denzil
>
>
> What I think this does is create me a local branch that is fixed to what was
> committed when the denzil-7.0 tag was created and it will remain that way
> and will not track the denzil branch as it gets updated.  Right????
>
> Now if I want to track the denzil branch as changes are committed, I think I
> do the following.
>
>  $ git checkout origin/denzil -b denzil
>
>
> Now I can do git pull commands to get the updates that are committed.
> Right??

Your arguments are backwards. See git help checkout.
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Christopher Larson