Explain creation of local branch from remote one

[git-wiki.git] / pep-git.txt

diff --git a/pep-git.txt b/pep-git.txt
index c123c389a0105284c043935ec8667f6e7f72eb64..73b2ecbf1dccf834bd6a20252b97ed3de6922475 100644 (file)
--- a/pep-git.txt
+++ b/pep-git.txt
@@ -174,8 +174,9 @@ When you do an initial clone like this::
     $ git clone -b v1 http://git.python.org/python.git
 
 git clones remote repository ``http://git.python.org/python.git`` to
-directory ``python``, creates remote branches and checks out branch
-``v1`` into the working directory.
+directory ``python``, creates remote branches, creates a local branch
+``v1``, configure it to track upstream remotes/origin/v1 branch and
+checks out ``v1`` into the working directory.
 
 Updating local and remote branches
 ----------------------------------
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@ For example::
 
 Git doesn't automatically pushes tags. That allows you to have private
 tags (lightweight tags are also private for a repo, they cannot be
-pushed). To push tag(s) list them explicitly::
+pushed). To push tags list them explicitly::
 
     $ git push origin tag 1.4.2
     $ git push origin v1 v2 tag 2.1.7