From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:11:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce <branch>@{tracked} as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <20090910111156.GA2910@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200909101218.06789.johan@herland.net>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:18:06PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

> > > A special shortcut '@{tracked}' refers to the branch tracked by the
> > > current branch.
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't know the name of the long form was up for discussion.
> > But it should certainly coincide with the key which for-each-ref
> > uses, shouldn't it? I don't care whether tracked or upstream, but
> > for-each-ref's "upstream" has set the precedent.
> 
> ...and 'git branch --track' set an even earlier precedent...

FWIW, that came about from this discussion:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115765

-Peff