Hi, For some time now I've stopped using 'git pull', and used 'git fetch', and now 'git remote update', however, this is still not ideal. Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 17 commits, and can be fast-forwarded. This message doesn't tell me _how_ I can 'fast-forward', I do 'git merge origin/master' but if git already knows 'master' is tracking 'origin/master' why should I specify that? Perhaps 'git merge --tracking'. But, while we are on that, why not automatically merge the tracking branches? Perhaps 'git remote update --auto-merge', configurable so I can make auto-merge the default, and perhaps make it the default in 1.8. Also, maybe some people would like them to be auto merged only when they can be fast-forwarded. I believe this would make remote tracking branches much more useful. What do you think? Cheers -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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