Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-branch to set up automatic rebasing

From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Jun 19, 2008, 22:58 UTC
Message-ID: <12AB50C8-6CBF-4D96-8FAB-90234A9006D0@ai.rug.nl>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6attey8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 19 jun 2008, at 21:14, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>> Hm, --rebasing sounds weird to me as well. Maybe --track=merge and
>> --track=rebase, with --track being equal to --track=merge?
>
> That looks like the best wording so far, although I suspect that the  
> true
> reason why all of the above sounds confusing may be because the  
> concept
> itself is not clear.

That's why I suggested --auto-rebase, which is more verbose in what it does. Perhaps we should add it as an optional flag for --track, like

   git branch --track --auto-rebase local remote/branch

? That is a bit long though.

I don't think "--track=rebase" makes a lot of sense, since "track" is still a boolean in my head ;)