From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sitaram Chamarty" Subject: Re: creating tracking branches with git gui Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 08:36:11 +0530 Message-ID: <2e24e5b90805072006j311b276cpe0a0d0eea9fa13a0@mail.gmail.com> References: <2e24e5b90805070104i337f9196g90134d11f35a1094@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 08 05:07:11 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JtwTL-0004Xa-84 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2008 05:07:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756331AbYEHDGQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 23:06:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756144AbYEHDGP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 23:06:15 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.188]:21839 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753067AbYEHDGM (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2008 23:06:12 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b6so208798tic.23 for ; Wed, 07 May 2008 20:06:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=7JhlPGF9ZG7qphrLWSaDO1tYsdPARa+D1RBfGvQGU1U=; b=TlCIji487vQlUJ928PBPsu1aWUUWqWLRMdO0KS3OmyzBRRou+GwTrsad3HjoCQ7hTMMYbjX0x3TjuztqZpOY4mDoaQj5CTI9bo2+mHg8gxqlqTlJtqf7Xb0F6OdvxeXmU58ExRTiZ1tpdQ0sN5sLFrohAMK/t+nDB8IawK9HuOs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=hRvCCtsSa9xlANTlq1+Uk++pgollH0Qe9CQ5aPJBOrB4e7gahHIjXQAFQhTizaDbruUMWtaZ8MIUhG9TDgtqrX9Wzpyj/oquaRGukEIB0vE/q0khtoMa1VQxjiz+TfyeuB9HG0NHTIwnJyCyj1hjK9QMZWPEtmeMAxXgFxGq2Ko= Received: by 10.110.93.11 with SMTP id q11mr260994tib.10.1210215971231; Wed, 07 May 2008 20:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.110.105.1 with HTTP; Wed, 7 May 2008 20:06:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2e24e5b90805070104i337f9196g90134d11f35a1094@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Can someone help me with this please or at least put me out of my misery? :-) Over on another thread I found a config variable called gui.matchtrackingbranch, but setting that to true only saved me a mouse click -- it didn't really create the tracking, as seen by "git remote show origin". Thanks, Sitaram On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > Hello, > > Using git gui to create tracking branches only creates the local > branch, but does not establish tracking. Using the command "git > branch newbr origin/newbr" works as expected of course. > > I clicked on "Branch", then "Create", chose the "Match Tracking Branch > Name" radio button, chose the appropriate branch (origin/newbr) in the > list below, then finally hit Create at the bottom right. > > I can write up a more detailed note if required but I thought I'd ask > if this was a bug in my understanding first :-) > > Thanks, > > Sitaram >