Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] git-branch: allow --track to work w/local branches

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 17, 2008, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490802171005xaed572dkd59ed822897fdb3a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802161143290.30505@racer.site>

On Feb 16, 2008 6:45 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> AFAIR the problem was that you were (rightfully) annoyed when you were
> setting up your local branches, and all of a sudden, they were set up with
> loads of tracking information, cluttering your config.
>
> Basically, that is the reason why we disallowed tracking information to be
> set up for local branching.

Hrmm, I was annoyed that when setting up my local branches, they *don't* get tracking information. Otherwise I can't use "git pull" with them, which I'd like to. So maybe something like:

 * Using --track or --notrack adds (or doesn't) the information, because
  well, I specified it explicitly.

 * Otherwise (if neither --track nor --notrack) is specified, check the
  setting of branch.autosetupmerge. Currently it's a boolean, but
  perhaps it can take on a new setting and have:
 - false
 - true
 - always ; new setting which means to setup tracking information for
          ; both local and remote branches

j.