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From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:30:47 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> Yeah. Each branch should
> 
>  (a) have a "default source" initialized on the initial "clone"
>
> (b) have a way to set the source afterwards
>
> (c) error out if you do just a "git pull" or "git pull remotename" if 
>     there is no default branch for the current local branch for that 
>     remote.

This would be _great_.  You just shouldn't have to hack at the
.git/config file to get reasonable default sources after a clone.
Or even for that matter after fetching a new branch into an
existing repo.