Dangers of working on a tracking branch

From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 20:49 UTC
Message-ID: <17876.51013.561979.431717@lisa.zopyra.com>

We are about to switch to git 1.5 from git 1.4.4.1. I cannot remember if someone posted about this, but what is the danger of working on a tracking branch --- there are abundant cautions about doing this, but I can't recall and can't find the reason this is bad.

Bill

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