Re: Branch relationships

From: Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Date: May 15, 2006, 01:48 UTC
Message-ID: <200605150348.53879.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vslncyxez.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Monday 15 May 2006 01:55, you wrote:

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> > After a "git clone", we would have
> >
> >  [remote "origin"]
> >    url = ...
> >    fetch = master:origin
> >
> >  [branch "master"]
> >    origin = "origin" ; upstream of master is local branch "origin"
> 
> Doesn't that arrangement force people to use tracking branches?

I think we already had the same discussion some time ago ;-)
This asks for support of a way to specify a remote origin branch
without any local tracking, like
  origin = "<remotebranch> of <remote>"

But not supporting this in a first step should be no problem, as you always can do "git pull somewhere that-head" directly.

A side-effect of the origin-arrangement would be that branching off a tracking branch would automatically update it on pull from the new branch. I would see this as improvement of usability as "generating a local development branch from a remote one" does not need any special command.