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Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:33:15 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> > What I meant to say was that this may be useful to _some_ degree but 
>> > probably _not very much_.
>> 
>> Yes, it's just about my "having short option aliases are good" idea. 
>> Should I improve the commit message by mentioning that this is useful 
>> "in case you don't want to have branch.autosetupmerge set to true for 
>> some reason"?
>
> AFAIR you still need to specify --track if you want to setup tracking 
> information for local branches, and have branch.autosetupmerge different 
> than "always", but as always, I might be mistaken.

Ah, you are right.  The change is fine as-is regardless of the
"autosetupmerge" thing.