2 things about branches

[Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net>]

I think it's a good idea to not list remote branches in 'git branch'
output per default, but imho we should make an exception for the branch
the user is currently on.
Currently when I do 'git checkout origin/next' the checkout works fine
and I get the warning about the remote branch, but an informational
query 'git branch' right after that says

* (no branch)
  master

'git branch -r' also doesn't mark me as being on origin/next.
Maybe we could query the remote-branches for a matching ref this case?

And another wish about branches:
After a fresh clone of git, my .git/config contains a section

[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master

so it's easy to keep the branch updated by just saying 'git pull' when
on branch master.

Doing 'git checkout -b next origin/next' gives me my own next-branch,
but short of editing .git/config there seems to be no way to get a
similar section [branch "next"] ... so I can follow next as easy as
master.
I'm not sure if there exists a sane default we could use automatically,
but maybe a switch to git-checkout to write a config entry would be
possible?

Thanks for listening to my rambling

-- 
best regards

  Ray