Re: [RFC/PATCH] git push usability improvements and default change

[John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>]

Hi,

   What's the status of these patches?  Will be commited?

John

2009/3/13 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>:
> Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> writes:
>>> Presumably the push --track option would be used with an explicit branch
>>> name given to push anyway, right?  Then it can use that info to set up
>>> the tracking flexibly (and with sane defaults).
>>>
>>> E.g.,, simple case:
>>>     git push --track SOME_REMOTE BRANCH_NAME
>>>
>>> complex case:
>>>     git push --track SOME_REMOTE MY-BRANCH:REMOTE-BRANCH
>>
>> Yes, git push --track ... would typically do the same thing to the
>> config as git checkout -b MY-BRANCH SOME_REMOTE/REMOTE-BRANCH, which
>> is enough for push --tracking to do its thing.
>>
>> I am not sure if you mean that git push --track could do something
>> extra to make --tracking unecessary for git push, currently it cannot
>> do that since the push configuration is per remote, not per branch.
>
> Hmm, now I'm confused... I was just thinking about --track, but am not
> sure what --tracking is ... need to go grovel past posts...
>
> -Miles
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