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Confusing error message

Subject: Confusing error message

## tl;dr

One message between Oct 21, 2010 and Oct 21, 2010.

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Ralf Baechle· Oct 21, 2010, 08:57 UTC · lore

$ 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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