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Re: git pull behavior changed?

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AAghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 22, 2010, 01:27 UTC
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> OK, then the behavior did change for you. But you are probably about 3
> years too late to complain and try to get it changed. :)

Dammit. :) But really no biggie. I just entered panic mode because I thought something got borked in my favorite tool, which is not the case obviously.

> You may also be interested to know that "git checkout foo" these days
> when you have no "foo" branch will do the equivalent of "git checkout -b
> --track foo origin/foo", which would also do what you want.

Wouldn't that create/track a remote 'foo' branch ? I have no remote branches but only local ones so I am always tracking origin/master.

  -- aghiles
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