Re: [PATCH] Add option to git-branch to set up automatic rebasing

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2008, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7vabhhroth.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <12AB50C8-6CBF-4D96-8FAB-90234A9006D0@ai.rug.nl>

Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl> writes:

Show 6 quoted lines

> That's why I suggested --auto-rebase, which is more verbose in what
> it does. Perhaps we should add it as an optional flag for --track, like
>
>   git branch --track --auto-rebase local remote/branch
>
> ? That is a bit long though.

That does not make _any_ sense unless you also have --auto-merge. And which part of rebasing is auto anyway? "git checkout local" won't rebase onto remote/branch for one thing.

> I don't think "--track=rebase" makes a lot of sense, since "track" is
> still a boolean in my head ;)

Well, track _is_ boolean. You usually build and develop yourself, but if you are following somebody else, you say "this is not really a pure development but is used to trail somebody else (aka "track mode ON"), and the way for this branch to follow that somebody else specifically is to merge from it or rebase on top of it (aka "how it tracks")".