Re: setting up tracking on push

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2009, 03:44 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490903102044j4ca3462eye5ffcb178608dc29@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:

>> No, look at how -m works. [<oldbranch>] <newbranch>. I modeled it after that.
>
> Hmm. I think of that as "make <newbranch>, move from <oldbranch> or
> HEAD".

Um, I think of it as "rename <oldbranch> to <newbranch>" where <oldbranch> defaults to the current branch (aka HEAD).

> Just as regular branch is "make <newbranch>, start from
> <oldbranch> or HEAD". But your proposal is "update <newbranch> or HEAD,
> from <oldbranch>".

Wait, what? No it isn't. My proposal is add or remove tracking information to <branch> where <branch> defaults to the current branch (aka HEAD).

-u w/o --track/--no-track is a usage error.

j.