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 13:56:52 +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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:58:25 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 1LhGWO-0004MM-L2 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:58:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751352AbZCKE44 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:56:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751281AbZCKE44 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:56:56 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:19420 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751276AbZCKE4z (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:56:55 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d21so387838nfb.21 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:56:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=a8tcZLpIqDeGJptibKK1KWQLOKEJbi1nNcjYuQERPFs=; b=sUh8xG38G7UTSQ4s7ZymOkr/UwLybH1wHFquinlCdyhXyoSjWzxpU2TsB0XnT8acPU ZO0upH068ay9V0aseslUeN61sVAonxc/Dfpk59tOJns4oQEs/Dt5kVQfRuU39XSK+Dv2 dL0QNjxlIYZps1lVGQ6pNdzxcD4/LSxkHeTbA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=W0JOEtG4X8EYt685HfurmGRzkHbDQezWUuqBSZdBL2+NKYqNBEyfVdrsTwGLQA+x/i JrANBhWpZds1sFZNheD6LX/jEvq9Q0V3/bFALpZqSFLN31wkRydhfqLKNvPu1i+A9Sye NAVymsh/qJj6W6G/46igOo4m+25o2U0OcfKsM= Received: by 10.216.19.68 with SMTP id m46mr3202196wem.7.1236747412453; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:56:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vwsaw7jzy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1c9a59965988b7fc Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > And for that use case, I find it sensible if we had a way to easily say > "This branch hasn't been tracking anything so far (because it is the > originator of the history), but now it will give up its authority and > start tracking the one it is pushing into", and it would make sense to > somehow link that to the invocation of "git push". 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. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.