From: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:18:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] branch: new option --will-track
Message-ID: <20091218061851.GA10221@inner.home.ulmdo.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vaaxhdu1f.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:07:08 +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:
...
> Also "git pull --remember $there $this" might be a good way to tell the
> configuration mechanism from the UI to remember that "I always want to
> merge $this branch from $there while on the branch I am currently on", and
> its implementation may probably use "git branch --reconfigure" internally.

Actually my favorite would be 'git push --track $there', pushing
the current local branch to $there and setting up tracking. That
way the tracking decision need not be made before the remote
branch actually exists.

Andreas