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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when
  appropriate to do so
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:04:54 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> I can imagine this happening:
> % git clone git://git.git git
> % git checkout next
> do you want to checkout origin/next? y
> # a few days later
> % git fetch
> % git checkout next
> [freenode] /join #git
> [#git] i did git checkout next but my files are still the same?

I imagined more something like this:

$ git clone git://git.git git
$ git checkout next
Automatically checking out local branch 'next' tracking 'origin/next'.
Please update it with 'git pull'.

Ciao,
Dscho