As described in http://stackoverflow.com/a/9537923 (paraphrased below):
> You need to create a local branch that tracks a remote branch.
> The following command will create a local branch
> tracking the remote branch of the same name.
> When you push your changes the remote branch will be updated.
>
> `git checkout --track [remotename]/[branch]`
>
> This is a shorthand for `git checkout -b [branch] [remotename]/[branch]`.
>
> For git 1.7.2.3 and higher this is enough: `git checkout daves_branch`
>
> Note that with recent git versions,
> **this will command not create a local branch and will put you in a 'detached HEAD' state.**
> If you want a local branch, use the --track option.
> Full details here: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Remote-Branches#Tracking-Branches
- Removing the word terminal because its implicit
- Mentioning that it loads a blank document by default
- Removing 'press' to maintain uniformity with other pages like `rtv`
- adjust punctuation & spacing in main description
- adjust descriptions ("changes" --> "information", and explicitly list which info is returned in the first example)
- use a concrete example for the tilde notation
- add abbreviated example
- change "directory" to "folder" (more beginner-friendly)
- use an extension to distinguish file paths from folder paths
- reword some of the descriptions for clarity
- include examples to clarify when the target argument defines the actual copy, and when it defines the folder where to put the copy
- add an example to copy contents of a folder into another (existing) folder
* Recursive scp arguments reversed
The command to "copy [...] on a remote host to a local
directory" in the current scp tldr page was backwards.
scp arguments take the form `scp from to`.
* add the word from for clarity
- reworded command description
- reworded example descriptions for clarity and explicitness
- changed order and content of examples, to introduce options gradually
- formatted all user-selectable parts (option values and arguments) in the token markup
