On Wednesday 06 December 2006 13:07, Andy Parkins wrote: > The [branch "master"] section is such that there is no change to the > functionality of git-pull, but that functionality is now explicitly > documented. Nice. However, changing "git-clone" for this is an adhoc solution and looks wrong. Branching off a local development branch for a tracking branch is the job of git-branch. So first, git-branch should be called from git-clone to do this setup. And git-branch should be told to change the configuration of default behavior of git-pull, whenever it sees that you are branching off from a branch tracking a remote one. I even would go so far to setup a default "git-pull" action even for branching off from local branches, by setting "branch.<newbranch>.remote = ." to merge from local "upstream". Similar, "git-checkout -b <newbranch>" should call "git-branch" for branch creation, too. Josef - 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