Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 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'.
git merge @{u}
> But, while we are on that, why not automatically merge the tracking
> branches?
Maybe 'git pull --all' could be taught to eventually do this? That
would be incompatible with its current behavior of fetching everything
and merging some random branch, but I don't think anyone is relying
on that.
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