Re: Confused about tracking git master

Nicolas Vilz [off-list ref] 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