From: Ralf Baechle Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:57:42 GMT Subject: Confusing error message 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