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From: Seth Falcon <sethfalcon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Confused about tracking git master
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Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> writes:
> You are trapped with the pu branch imho, like many others before *G* ... 
> simply do a 
>
> Pull: +refs/heads/pu:refs/heads/pu
>
> in your .git/remotes/origin file or remove that pu line...

Thank you!  That seems to get me going again.  But, isn't this going
to trip up other newbies?  I just tried a fresh git clone and the pu
branch comes in...

It would improve one's first impressions to not have to edit
.git/remotes/origin (although it is instructional) just to stay up to
date with git.

Cheers,

+ seth