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Confusing error message

From
RBRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date
Oct 21, 2010, 08:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20101021085742.GA28533@linux-mips.org>

$ git checkout master $ git branch linux-2.6.36-stable error: Not tracking: ambiguous information for ref refs/heads/master $

Error suggests the command did fail but the branch was created as expected. I suggest to turn this into a warning - if at all. I just don't care about the tracking stuff.

  Ralf
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  1. Ralf BaechleOct 21, 2010

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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