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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] Documentation: branch.*.merge can also afect  'git-push'
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:08:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3acrk2p0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0903301506r65bd9b9bv6bf76c652a051400@mail.gmail.com> (Santi Béjar's message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:06:30 +0200")

Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> writes:

> 2009/3/30 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> ...
> Maybe the push.default description needs some enhancements, but this
> [3/4] is true.
>
>> I think the author meant to say if your local branch frotz by default
>> merges changes made to the branch nitfol of the remote repository, "frotz
>> tracks nitfol", but the use of the word "track" for that meaning appears
>> nowhere in Documentation/glossary-content.txt
>
> So we can define:
>
> push.default = "tracking" = "push the current branch to its upstream branch"
>
> The "upstream branch" is defined in branch.name.merge and could also
> be added to glossary-content.

Sounds like a good plan.  Please make it so.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-30 10:11 [PATCHv2 0/4] push.default and branch.<name>.{remote,merge} changes Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv2 1/4] Documentation: enhance branch.<name>.{remote,merge} Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv2 2/4] Documentation: push.default applies to all remotes Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv2 3/4] Documentation: branch.*.merge can also afect 'git-push' Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 10:35   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-30 16:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-30 22:06     ` Santi Béjar
2009-04-02  6:08       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-03-30 10:11 ` [PATCHv2 4/4] Rename push.default to push.mode Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 10:42   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-30 12:37     ` Santi Béjar
2009-03-30 13:06       ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-30 13:45         ` Jeff King
2009-03-30 14:47           ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-30 18:02             ` Jeff King
2009-03-31 12:55               ` Michael J Gruber
2009-03-31 13:08                 ` Jeff King

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