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From: "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:33:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76718490802190833p68d361b4jf93ac196fe671d6b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1203438278-73786-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com>

On Feb 19, 2008 11:24 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:
> git branch / git checkout -b now honor --track when the upstream branch
> is local. Previously --track was silently ignored for local upstream
> branches.
>
> The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to
> "always" which is equivalent to using --track. Setting
> branch.autosetupmerge to boolean true will retains the former behavior
> of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches.

I re-used my commit message w/o thinking enough. The truth is:

 * '--track' fails if the starting point isn't a branch.

 * autosetupmerge=always sets up tracking if the starting point is a branch
   (local or remote), otherwise (if starting point is not a branch) it is
   ignored.

j.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-19 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19 16:24 [PATCH 1/2] branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches Jay Soffian
2008-02-19 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: documentation update for the branch track changes Jay Soffian
2008-02-19 21:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-19 22:09     ` Jay Soffian
2008-02-19 16:33 ` Jay Soffian [this message]
2008-02-19 16:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches Johannes Schindelin

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