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Re: creating tracking branches with git gui

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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
May 9, 2008, 18:20 UTC
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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Yea, I think that option actually predates the --track thing that
> git-branch does these days.  Its designed to save a mouse click if
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> I don't use the --track feature (branch.$name.remote, branch.$name.merge)
> in my own work, so I have never had the desire or need to make sure that
> git-gui sets this up for you.
>
> I'll try to work up a patch this evening.
Thanks -- I appreciate it.

The tracking feature is very useful; even though I understand the whole refspec syntax perfectly well I still use this feature.

And I'm trying to propagate git at my job and every bit helps.

Besides, it's a bit hard to explain to folks why the widgets are called "Match Tracking Branch Name" and "Tracking Branch" but the branch is not actually tracked :-)

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