Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] remote tracking: return the tracking branch for the given branches

["Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>]

2009/6/18 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> writes:
>> 2009/6/18 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:
>>> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Santi Béjar wrote:
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
>>>> index 9e2b4ea..e444899 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
>>>> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>>>>  'git remote show' [-n] <name>
>>>>  'git remote prune' [-n | --dry-run] <name>
>>>>  'git remote update' [-p | --prune] [group | remote]...
>>>> +'git remote tracking' <name> <branch>...
>>>>
>>>>  DESCRIPTION
>>>>  -----------
>>>> @@ -128,6 +129,12 @@ be updated.  (See linkgit:git-config[1]).
>>>>  +
>>>>  With `--prune` option, prune all the remotes that are updated.
>>>>
>>>> +'tracking'::
>>>> +
>>>> +Returns the tracking branch for the given remote (<name>) and branch
>>>> +(<branch>). Note that <branch> must exactly match the left hand side of
>>>> +the refspec of the given remote.
>>>> +
>>>
>>> From that description, it is not clear to me if the branch is the _remote_
>>> branch, the branch _on_ the remote, or the local branch.
>>
>> OK. s/and branch/and remote branch/
>>
>>> If it is the remote branch (or the branch on the remote), I wonder how you
>>> deal with ambiguities, as I can easily create hundreds of branches
>>> tracking the same remote branch.
>>
>> AFAICS from remote_find_tracking (and some tests), it picks the first match.
>>
>> So, additional text could be: In case of multiple matches, it picks
>> the first one.
>
> Why not have both:

It makes sense.

>
>  git remote tracking <remote> <remote branch>
>
> would show all local branches that track <remote branch>, and have
> <remote> as default remote,

Maybe my description is unclear, but it's not about local branches
which track <branch> on <remote>, it is about the local branch
representation of the remote branch, i.e. not 'master' but
origin/master (git remote tracking origin master in a default clone).

> while
>
>  git remote tracking <local branch>
>
> would show <remote> and <remote branch> if <local branch> is following
> remote-tracking branch.

Good idea.

Santi

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