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Describe git-clone's actual behavior in the summary

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If a branch other than "master" is checked out in the origin repository,
git-clone makes a local copy of that branch rather than the origin's
"master"
branch. This patch describes the actual behavior.

Signed-off-by: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Steven Grimm 2007-01-05 17:52:20 -08:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ DESCRIPTION
Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates
remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository
(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out a master
branch equal to the cloned repository's master branch.
(visible using `git branch -r`), and creates and checks out an initial
branch equal to the cloned repository's currently active branch.
After the clone, a plain `git fetch` without arguments will update
all the remote-tracking branches, and a `git pull` without
arguments will in addition merge the remote master branch into the
current branch.
current master branch, if any.
This default configuration is achieved by creating references to
the remote branch heads under `$GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin` and