f="git-branch.html">git-branch(1)</a> for details.</p>
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<p>If no <code>-b</code> option is given, the name of the new branch will be
derived from the remote-tracking branch, by looking at the local part of
the refspec configured for the corresponding remote, and then stripping
the initial part up to the "*".
This would tell us to use <code>hack</code> as the local branch when branching
off of <code>origin/hack</code> (or <code>remotes/origin/hack</code>, or even
<code>refs/remotes/ori