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Re: cogito remote branch

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 9, 2007, 13:20 UTC
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MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I just saw the scripts cg-update, cg-push ..  scripts try to guess a
> branch name functioning as origin if no argument is given. These scripts
> seam to use a branch named <branchname>-origin if it exists and the
> current
> branch is named <branchname> and is not the branch named master.
> 
> I like that feature. Is it anywhere documented?
> 
> In case there is no branch named <branchname>-origin the scripts just
> use origin even if the current branch is not master. I would prefer the
> scripts to fail in this case and to print a message asking the user to
> specifically name a branch.
> 

Cogito is deprecated, and has been for quite some time. The "remote" feature of core git (inspired by cogito) offers similar benefits.

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