Re: setting up tracking on push

[Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> -u w/o --track/--no-track is a usage error.
>
> Then what is the point of "-u"? You said before that it was a new
> operation with room for future growth of additional options. Either it
> is _just_ for --track, in which case I think you are better to have a
> single option representing the notion of "update the tracking setup", or
> it isn't, in which case it needs to have room for future expansion.

For *now*, it is just for --track/--no-track, since I can't think of
anything sensible that "-u" without --track nor --no-track would do.

So it means, update the branch config, but you have to tell it what
aspect of the branch config to update.

I agree that currently, a single option could do here, but I can't
think of a good one. --add-tracking and --delete-tracking? I was
trying to re-use the fact that we already have --track and --no-track,
but I needed some way to differentiate the mode from "create a new
branch". Hence -u.

j.