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Discussion on: Git TIP - Why you should not keep a local master branch ?

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Jonathan Cousins

Maybe I’m being pedantic, but isn’t origin/master local? We call it a remote reference, but it still exists locally.

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Antoine Caron

Yeah, that is completely true.

This is why, keeping a copy from the remote reference origin/master up to date is not necessary.