Re: [RFC] git-clone: add --track <headname> support

From: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Apr 12, 2007, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <461EA56B.5000400@catalyst.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <7vk5whki24.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> writes:
>> Not sure if Junio wants this, but if I am going to migrate
>> away from cogito, I'd like these common operations to be
>> dead simple. 
> 
> I am not interested in moving people away from cogito ;-).

Well... ;-) in any case, I suspect some of the semantics cogito uses are starting to break... it's kinda-supported-but-legacy.

So I think we need these niceties in core git for large projects. Right now we have an explosion of ways of doing things, and many of them error-prone. The basic idioms should be simple and fool-proof.

> With the talk about making more things built-in...

Can we not have something like this merged into the shell version? When the C version comes, the functionality can be modelled on this.

> Also you might want to check "branch.autosetupmerge" config.  It
> seems to be described in git-branch manual page without being
> listed in Documentation/config.txt, which is a bad that happend
> some time ago X-<.

Will to. Thanks.

> It seems that today has been a day to discover many bads that
> happened some time ago for me X-<.  I should quit and call it a
> day now...

Hope your next day is better. Hugs from NZ.

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