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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> 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.