Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In some sense this is a really bad case of wrong UI design, because we > (this happens on #git a lot) have to teach users not to use the command > so they won't trip over this problem. It would be better to fix the > real issue instead. IIRC it was even on the 1.8.0 wishlist... Is it? There already is a way to ask it to update the single tracking branch while fetching; "git fetch origin master" that unconditionally updates refs/remotes/origin/master without a way to tell it not to do so will be a grave usability regression. -- 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