When you do this you're telling git "I want a new branch from where I
am right now". If you want to be able to pull in a similar way to how
master works, use the '--track' option.
Actually, the '--track' option is exactly what I don't want ! :) It tells me:
"Branch test set up to track local branch refs/heads/master."
Without the '--track' option it seems to work as expected: when I pull
it downloads data form the remote but then stops before merging.
This used to work! What happened ? :(
-- aghiles