Re: Branch relationships

[Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>]

On Monday 15 May 2006 01:55, you wrote:
> > After a "git clone", we would have
> >
> >  [remote "origin"]
> >    url = ...
> >    fetch = master:origin
> >
> >  [branch "master"]
> >    origin = "origin" ; upstream of master is local branch "origin"
> 
> Doesn't that arrangement force people to use tracking branches?

I think we already had the same discussion some time ago ;-)
This asks for support of a way to specify a remote origin branch
without any local tracking, like
  origin = "<remotebranch> of <remote>"

But not supporting this in a first step should be no problem, as
you always can do "git pull somewhere that-head" directly.

A side-effect of the origin-arrangement would be that branching
off a tracking branch would automatically update it on pull from
the new branch. I would see this as improvement of usability as
"generating a local development branch from a remote one" does
not need any special command.