From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi Subject: Re: [question] how can i verify whether a local branch is tracking a remote branch? Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:25:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30904051425w6739a12fp5666e71e8b2d7958@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d8e3fd30904050332w394cccbaq5b82d2a53ed357a3@mail.gmail.com> <20090405144413.GC2076@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Apr 05 23:27:05 2009 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 1LqZrs-0002Ja-Fd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:27:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752550AbZDEVZd (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:25:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751768AbZDEVZc (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:25:32 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:32858 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751416AbZDEVZc (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:25:32 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1642349fxm.37 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:25:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ksJK0vcK2fwXHIfiZow9jmhmvTXU42QmwcxWriC2ZX8=; b=n9jLf99wVtl57c0EkTxatyZliTmCjLuNsJbqJRiASyw44YryRM764C5m/RfCY/BCw1 ZMr3mt/Js2Ye8EeBQm0Gjc0A+51fmLXDO3XWJBl22sGtXR7n5RMe94WoiYmw83DzRl8W g6ez8mch9jECLqQwB8N7Ntcqama5UPz3NPgZE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fCejFqR31ujJbVlIEjEKfd0FksQVbK1JRuUuHlRS6VIarOuAh4vKpiJ2EDDCcF4/UP 7dUg4svrvzEcI2owj192kxZOy8ADOJMVDkBF1UL+kSGVIu/eFONCTTKh/q+Xifmjb58a 1ey+8SbFnIneMDpjAbmceDfO4+wnZL70KTH5M= Received: by 10.86.82.16 with SMTP id f16mr2556380fgb.32.1238966729228; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:25:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090405144413.GC2076@sigill.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 4/5/09, Jeff King wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:32:29PM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > >> is there a way to verify, using the UI, whether a local branch is >> tracking a remote branch? > > Do you mean "whether it is tracking any branch", or "whether the branch > is is tracking is remote"? I mean whether it is tracking a branch and if it is I want to know which branch is being tracked. > If the former, then I think if one of branch.$branch.{merge,rebase} > is set, it is tracking something. The tracked thing is remote unless > branch.$branch.remote is ".". An example: $ git clone -n URL temp $ cd temp $ git branch -r origin/master origin/foo Origin/bar $ git checkout --track -b foo origin/foo Now, how can I know that foo is tracking origin/foo ? Thanks. Ciao, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ http://mypage.vodafone.it/