Re: git pull fails

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

If your current branch would really be a remote branch and you simply
git-fetched, your HEAD would change but not your working tree, and at
that moment things would become very confusing. Cogito would start
showing nonsensical stuff for cg-status and cg-diff (as well as
git-diff-tree HEAD output), but your index would at least still be
correct so I'm not sure how much attention do tools like git-diff pay to
it, the level of messup would be proportional to that.

People want to leave tracking branches checked out, especially
when they are not developers but are "update to the latest and
compile the bleeding edge" types.  Support for that mode of
operation was invented long time ago and git-pull knows about
it, and the idea was ported to git-cvsimport recently.