Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: > If your current branch would really be a remote branch and you simply > git-fetched, your HEAD would change but not your working tree, and at > that moment things would become very confusing. Cogito would start > showing nonsensical stuff for cg-status and cg-diff (as well as > git-diff-tree HEAD output), but your index would at least still be > correct so I'm not sure how much attention do tools like git-diff pay to > it, the level of messup would be proportional to that. People want to leave tracking branches checked out, especially when they are not developers but are "update to the latest and compile the bleeding edge" types. Support for that mode of operation was invented long time ago and git-pull knows about it, and the idea was ported to git-cvsimport recently. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html