On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:38 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > - retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the > > + retrieve data from the remote branch, otherwise you'll have to > > + use "git pull <url>" explicitly. Set the > > branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you > > want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if > > '--track' were given. > > Hmph. > > I'd rather make them consistent by dropping the not-so-correct > "otherwise" phrase from all three copies. It is not "otherwise > you'll have to", but "instead you can". Sure, I've added better wording now. > I am inclined to suggest rewording the message like this, and > make this condition an error (i.e. "exit 1"): [snip] I like that message much better, and it's nice that it gives you the snippet to put in your config file. This is in patch 4/4. Thanks for the review; I hope this can make it in now ;) Federico - 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