git-co: remove unintentional git pull --all after git switch -c

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git switch -c <branch> origin/<branch> already configures tracking, making the subsequent git pull --all redundant and harmful — it pulls from all configured remotes, not just origin.

Changes

• git-co: deleted all three git pull --all calls in co():
  • after direct origin/$1 match checkout
  • after single-match auto-checkout
  • after interactive multi-match selection checkout

# Before — unnecessary and overly broad
git switch -c "$1" "origin/$1"
git pull --all   # ← removed

# After
git switch -c "$1" "origin/$1"

Original prompt

git-co: remove unintentional git pull --all after git switch -c

File to modify: git-co

Problem

In the co() function, after tracking a new remote branch with git switch -c "$1" "origin/$1", the script runs git pull --all. This fetches and pulls from all configured remotes, which is almost certainly unintentional — the branch is already set up to track origin/$1 and git switch -c with a start-point does not need a follow-up pull. The same pattern appears in the multi-match interactive section too.

Fix

Remove all occurrences of git pull --all from the file. There are three occurrences:

1. After git switch -c "$1" "origin/$1" in the direct origin match block (around line 147)
2. After git switch -c "$branch_name" "origin/$branch_name" in the single-match auto-checkout block (around line 163)
3. After git switch -c "$branch_name" "origin/$branch_name" in the interactive multi-match selection block (around line 179)

Simply delete those git pull --all lines entirely. No other changes.

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#	PR Title	What it does
1	Add MIT license	Adds a LICENSE file so users know they can freely use and adapt the scripts
2	Add ShellCheck CI workflow	Adds .github/workflows/shellcheck.yml to automatically lint all shell scripts on every push and PR
3	git-branch-clean: safer branch deletion and fetch error handling	Switches git branch -D → git branch -d and adds an exit guard on git fetch --prune
4	git-co: fix expensive per-branch python3 Levenshtein loop	Batches all branch names into a single python3 call instead of spawning one process per branch
5	git-co: remove unnecessary git pull --all	Removes the redundant git pull --all after git switch -c, which already sets up tracking
6	git-co: validate branch selection input is numeric	Adds [[ "$selection" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] guard to prevent a cryptic Bash error on non-numeric input
7	idle-power-manager: add log rotation	Adds a rotate_log function and MAX_LOG_LINES env var to cap the log file at 10,000 lines
8	idle-power-manager: fix fragile switch_profile success detection	Checks the gdbus call exit code directly instead of grepping stdout for the string "true"
9	idle-power-manager: add DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS fallback	Exports a fallback socket path so the script works reliably as a systemd user service
10	Add install.sh	Adds a one-shot install script that symlinks all scripts to ~/.local/bin/, with README and CLAUDE.md updates

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Pull request overview

Removes redundant and overly broad git pull --all invocations from git-co after creating a local branch that already tracks origin/<branch> via git switch -c.

Changes:

• Removed git pull --all after direct origin/<branch> creation in co().
• Removed git pull --all after single-match auto-checkout branch creation.
• Removed git pull --all after interactive multi-match selection branch creation.

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