From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:17:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce <branch>@{tracked} as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <4AA90A67.401@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0909101534440.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 10.09.2009 15:35:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Johan Herland wrote:
> 
>> I think I vote for the second option, renaming 'git branch --track' 
>> to 'git branch --upstream', and s/@{tracked}/@{upstream}/.
> 
> That does not make any sense, as that --track is to be understood as a 
> verb.  How do you "upstream a branch"?

Well, that brunch also got its granma wrong tho his speeling is right ;)

Seriously: In

git branch --track branch1 branch2

who tracks whom if you read "--track" as a verb?
So, "--track" can only be understood as an attribute to the main (first)
argument, saying it's tracking something. Just as --upstream could be
read as an attribute meaning "has an upstream".

(Note also how different this is from how -b works for checkout, -b
actually taking an argument: git checkout -b branch1 branch2)

Cheers,
Michael