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From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce <branch>@{tracked} as shortcut to the tracked branch
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:18:06 +0200
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On Thursday 10 September 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 10.09.2009 11:36:
> > Often, it is quite interesting to inspect the branch tracked by a
> > given branch.  This patch introduces a nice notation to get at the
> > tracked branch: '<branch>@{tracked}' can be used to access that
> > tracked branch.
> >
> > A special shortcut '@{tracked}' refers to the branch tracked by the
> > current branch.
>
> Sorry, I didn't know the name of the long form was up for discussion.
> But it should certainly coincide with the key which for-each-ref
> uses, shouldn't it? I don't care whether tracked or upstream, but
> for-each-ref's "upstream" has set the precedent.

...and 'git branch --track' set an even earlier precedent...


...Johan


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