From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:40:29 GMT
Subject: Re: setting up tracking on push
Message-ID: <76718490903102040m6bfb45f1xfd7ff3d53a79ef5b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090311030604.GA3044@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> If "-u" is supposed to be a general mode, then what does it mean to say:
>
>  git branch -u foo

Nothing, that would emit the usage message since it's not valid.

> ? I would expect that to "update" foo. But if --track is given, then it
> means "update HEAD to track foo".

Maybe branch isn't the best place to put this feature, but it's where
I'd look. I'm not married to -u, it was just the first thing that came
to mind. But I still can't think of anything better.

j.