From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: setting up tracking on push Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:03:14 +0900 Message-ID: References: <49b12ff7.nCWIz4ABJcgwW3BZ%obrien654j@gmail.com> <76718490903060743m425c2d55n6e8737c893c936e8@mail.gmail.com> <87d4cuobrc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <49B6CCDB.8010305@xiplink.com> <20090310230939.GB14083@sigio.peff.net> <76718490903101852y2c90e0abi8e0e4f71e6f0bc52@mail.gmail.com> <20090311020409.GA31365@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vwsaw7jzy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff King , Jay Soffian , Marc Branchaud , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 11 06:06:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LhGdc-0005jf-Le for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:05:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751507AbZCKFDg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:03:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750988AbZCKFDg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:03:36 -0400 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:57288 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951AbZCKFDf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:03:35 -0400 Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n2B53FgG008103; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:03:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:03:15 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.112.181] [10.114.112.181]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:03:14 +0900 Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id E2E5852E277; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:03:14 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:56:52 +0900") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > I agree, and that's the use-case that prompted my original query. I > very often create a new branch locally, and later push it to origin > with an intent to subsequently keep it synced with the new remote > branch. Oh, and I also always use the syntax: git push origin BRANCH_NAME As the (apparent) objection adding "git push --track" was the question of what the behavior would be in the general case (where lots of branches can be pushed), maybe restricting "--track" to only specific cases would be a possible solution? -Miles -- 97% of everything is grunge