{"thread":{"id":"15946","subject":"rfe: set up tracking the quick way","startedAt":"2008-10-18T03:55:08Z","lastAt":"2008-10-18T03:55:08Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Jan Engelhardt"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"93339","messageId":"alpine.LNX.1.10.0810172350370.4476@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr","threadId":"15946","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"rfe: set up tracking the quick way","fromName":"Jan Engelhardt","fromEmail":"jengelh@medozas.de","sentAt":"2008-10-18T03:55:08Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-18T03:55:08Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jengelh@medozas.de","avatar":null},"body":"[please cc, but you should do that anyway ;-)]\n\nHi,\n\n\nsometimes it happens that I want to issue `git pull`, but then it nicely \ntells me that there is no remote branch set up to be tracked (that's my \nfault then), and goes on to tell me two longish git config commands to \nissue to make it so...\n\n\tgit config branch.master.remote origin\n\tgit config branch.master.merge master\n\n76 chars to type. Can we have a short variant? Something like\n\n\tgit track origin/master\n\nor of similar shortness that operates on the current branch.\n\nthanks,\nJan\n"}]}