From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 18:20:00 GMT
Subject: Re: creating tracking branches with git gui
Message-ID: <2e24e5b90805091120j1fa5939ck4f2272aae2df00b9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080508234114.GZ29038@spearce.org>

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

> 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 :-)