Explain creation of local branch from remote one

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

diff --git a/pep-git.txt b/pep-git.txt
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--- a/pep-git.txt
+++ b/pep-git.txt
@@ -79,9 +79,14 @@ Microsoft Windows: download `git-for-windows
 <https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases>`_.
 
 MacOS X: use git installed with `XCode
-<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/>`_ or download
+<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/>`_ or download from
+`MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=git>`_ or
 `git-osx-installer
-<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_.
+<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_ or
+install git with `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_: ``brew install git``.
+
+`Atlassins's SourceTree <https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/>`_ is a free
+Git and Mercurial GUI client for Windows or Mac.
 
 Initial configuration
 ---------------------
@@ -169,8 +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
 ----------------------------------
@@ -293,7 +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