From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] git push --track Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:18:06 -0800 Message-ID: <7vska7z0yp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20100114070316.GC1528@rm.endoftheinternet.org> <7vr5ps5jx1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87y6k06wgz.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Rudolf Polzer , Tay Ray Chuan , git@vger.kernel.org To: Miles Bader X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 15 19:18:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVqkY-0005CP-2h for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:18:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757986Ab0AOSSS (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757984Ab0AOSSS (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:18 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:33887 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757960Ab0AOSSR (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:17 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D64B919C4; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:17 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= sasl; bh=Kj+Vg4gt3MBbpGqYrCYjchf9dLk=; b=CKhxpLHZlBtdDOEJ1FvLpqP VHOS+JyMRgqSRcSxZmzE6L/PzmDvYarYdnku269VjuxRrMN9W6oqZ1KVUtBEFWbs wOJJRavZPfl4ni51y9yMrUXFir/ErYPLlHySZu8tHKkmSAOidh0RTrYs1lMnym6f X2jdEFuh1csuzVA/n00g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q= dns; s=sasl; b=wDlCK6PD969ieKD38puD1idWFHooEGbt/2OgtG3PXjVncARJT mF/zphPyIcxEKFCvS0sJrnXD2jnI+rTEGwkM5j7DNV/ROnhBKaU8YzcVo9SQe7uz o3w/wErnduh109PR1uT4l/asZWy3MLoqcsXt3rZPiBZrCoemSvyQXfv9xM= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DB6919C3; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19DFB919BD; Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:07 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 57B6A3DC-0202-11DF-9691-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: >> And it doesn't add --track to the UI. > > That's not a positive... Oh, that is definitely a *HUGE* plus. I wouldn't go so far as to say that the word --track was a mistake. But the thing is, unfortunately it has already been contaminated by people using it in two completely different ways and ended up confusing new people. Some use it to mean "this branch forked off of and builds on top of", and others use it to mean "this ref holds a copy for reference purposes".