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From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Subject: Re: setting up tracking on push
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:39:27 -0400
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
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To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
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Jay Soffian wrote:
> 
> Actually, for me, I find sometimes I've forgotten to setup tracking,
> or I've setup tracking and don't want it. I just fire up an editor on
> .git/config, or use git config, but I would appreciate an easy way to
> add/remove tracking to a branch after the fact.

I second that -- that's the exact situation I ran into.

Editing .git/config is scary and obscurely documented for new users (who are more likely to forget to set up tracking).  Plus encapsulating this in some porcelain makes it a bit less error-prone.

		M.