Re: defaults for where to merge from

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2007, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0702281045u2e511ebfie14a7b718531f8c4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702281643200.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 2/28/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> > How about adding an option to tell checkout/branch that a tracking
> > branch is wanted (-t perhaps) - or perhaps a way to say that you don't
> > want to track the remote (depending on which is more popular)?
>
> I don't think that you should be forced to do it explicitely. If you want
> to merge in another branch, you can do that _explicitely_. So, defaulting
> to what most people want anyway is A Good Thing.
>

As is an option to disable the feature. I.e. for scripts, which create branches blindly, without knowing they working on a remote branch. So, please, provide an option to do what git-checkout/git-branch did before: which is just create the branch, nothing more.