On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > We are about to switch to git 1.5 from git 1.4.4.1. I cannot remember > if someone posted about this, but what is the danger of working on a > tracking branch --- there are abundant cautions about doing this, but > I can't recall and can't find the reason this is bad. A tracking branch is supposed to be a local mirror of what is available remotely. If you commit local changes to it then you break that model. This is why with Git 1.5.0 tracking branches are in a different namespace by default to which you cannot commit. Nicolas - 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