From: Alex Riesen Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:45:39 GMT Subject: Re: defaults for where to merge from Message-ID: <81b0412b0702281045u2e511ebfie14a7b718531f8c4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On 2/28/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > 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.