Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2009, #07; Wed, 28)

> > You could make a guess that they will use "master", and if you are
> > wrong, it behaves as now. But if you are right, "git pull" pulls down
> > master automatically.
> > 
> > But that is getting a little confusing. So let's push this "git push
> > --track" idea to completion and see how people like it.
> 
> How about installing
> 
> 	[branch "master"]
> 		remote = origin
> 		merge = refs/heads/master
> 
> by default?  It is a safe bet that this will be the case for 99% of all 
> users that want to clone an empty repository (especially if they are 
> putting their public repositories on something like repo.or.cz, where you 
> cannot change the default branch from "master" to something else).
> 
> And if somebody wants to track another branch, tough, she has to call 
> this:
> 
> 	$ git checkout -t origin/blablabla