Re: Using the --track option when creating a branch

>On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
>> We have had a few "crossed stream" problems when developers are
>> working on a local branch and they do an unguarded git push/pull,
>> when they really intended to do git push/pull origin branchname.
>>
>> We use git in a way that makes it desirable for us to only push/pull
>> to the same remote branch.  So, if I'm in branch X, I want 'git push'
>> to push to origin/X, and 'git pull' to fetch into origin/X and then
>> merge into X from origin/X.
>>
>> In other words, we want git push/pull to behave in branches other than
>> master the same way it does when in master.
>>
>> I have discovered the '--track' option when creating a local branch,
>> and this appears to me to be the thing that gives us the desired
>> behavior.
>
>branch.autosetupmerge controls if --track is used by default (it is
>true by default since a long time)
>(See "git help config" for details)