From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Soffian Subject: Re: setting up tracking on push Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:40:29 -0400 Message-ID: <76718490903102040m6bfb45f1xfd7ff3d53a79ef5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <49b12ff7.nCWIz4ABJcgwW3BZ%obrien654j@gmail.com> <76718490903060743m425c2d55n6e8737c893c936e8@mail.gmail.com> <87d4cuobrc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <49B6CCDB.8010305@xiplink.com> <20090310230939.GB14083@sigio.peff.net> <76718490903101852y2c90e0abi8e0e4f71e6f0bc52@mail.gmail.com> <20090311020409.GA31365@coredump.intra.peff.net> <76718490903101959i61df26aagdff44bb9ab4593ab@mail.gmail.com> <20090311030604.GA3044@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Marc Branchaud , Miles Bader , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 11 04:43:47 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 1LhFM9-000684-EJ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:43:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755916AbZCKDkg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:40:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755905AbZCKDkd (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:40:33 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.234]:3477 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755874AbZCKDkb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:40:31 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id g9so2772121rvb.5 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:40:30 -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=Z59+zTGx0Uapv2a8XTMthJ8BhZYCNVxRSsFySL9KWzQ=; b=gLqzWGDNMeOUJ4NyY+pfBoVWRKy6z/FZ6TXhLyRO/Qu7XeKAoXhTZQTMfD59BjWYyw 7jmu8DyWPOx0flawwBLoGaQeU+npXbbnUfHS/lKeg5h/2MBvhvA1k67qWE/DjRpbQvYu kp9fD+xV1Vz9PagbXzd6vI/o0Tikr5zNX24wQ= 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=VSzaSfp7EC3WyMyc85zcf57/g1ssXgZh26oFAXGpZ9vxjkA0HTdF4tV19yax+oc241 ZmvIXbaKY7oylOexbFFoL3URlhgqddjTGJJy5cwWjrnc89uR9JwAKI3p3gbz5xK12RAV fto76vlYhNh0Q3f9Oqq26hEHo0oKZgZsN/qqM= Received: by 10.141.71.14 with SMTP id y14mr4125025rvk.131.1236742829966; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:40:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090311030604.GA3044@coredump.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Jeff King wrote: > If "-u" is supposed to be a general mode, then what does it mean to s= ay: > > =C2=A0git branch -u foo Nothing, that would emit the usage message since it's not valid. > ? I would expect that to "update" foo. But if --track is given, then = it > means "update HEAD to track foo". Maybe branch isn't the best place to put this feature, but it's where I'd look. I'm not married to -u, it was just the first thing that came to mind. But I still can't think of anything better. j.