Re: setting up tracking on push

[John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>]

2009/3/6 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>:
> [...sorry if this is a dup -- my previous attempt didn't seem to take...]
>
> Is there an "easy" way to set up tracking for a branch which starts out
> locally, and is eventually pushed to a remote?
>
> E.g., I create a new local branch "grognul", and then later propagate it
> to my remote site using:
>
>  git push origin grognul
>
> That works great (creating origin/grognul), but to set up tracking, I
> currently edit .git/config (not insanely difficult, but vaguely
> annoying).  This is as opposed to a branch which starts out remotely,
> and is pulled, where one can just use "git branch --track" or "git
> checkout --track" (or use a config option to do so by default).
>
> I vaguely feel like I should be able to do:
>
>  git push --track origin grognul
>
> [I do this particular action -- creating a branch locally and then
> pushing it to origin -- very very often, thus my desire for a handy
> option.]
>
> What do other people think?

I got bitten by this too, and there's no clue given how to set up the
tracking.  I'd like it to even ask the user when pushing:

$ git push origin grognul
Pushing blah blah...
 Do you want to track this? [Y/N/?]

:-)

John

>
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