On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:18:58AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> If everyone hated the old behavior, old users should already be careful > >> about not git-pull'ing (without options) from any branch but master. So > >> they won't see any difference. > > > > except for .git/config growing uncontrollably > > I think this should be a new option, not the _modified default_. > Otherwise it would be harder to sell to olde timers. > > $ git checkout -B <newbranch> remotes/<blah> > $ git branch --track <newbranch> remotes/<blah> > > might be a good compromise. Personally I usually use <blah> as <newbranch>. I might have gone for something like git remote checkout [remote] blah [-b newbranch] with defaulted to newbranch = blah. --b. - 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