From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:33:15 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track Message-ID: <7v8wyzgq3o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> > What I meant to say was that this may be useful to _some_ degree but >> > probably _not very much_. >> >> Yes, it's just about my "having short option aliases are good" idea. >> Should I improve the commit message by mentioning that this is useful >> "in case you don't want to have branch.autosetupmerge set to true for >> some reason"? > > AFAIR you still need to specify --track if you want to setup tracking > information for local branches, and have branch.autosetupmerge different > than "always", but as always, I might be mistaken. Ah, you are right. The change is fine as-is regardless of the "autosetupmerge" thing.