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git-branch manpage question

From
Mark Struberg <struberg@yahoo.de>
Date
Sep 16, 2008, 14:46 UTC
Message-ID
<957350.34177.qm@web27803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Hi!
I think i found an inconsistency in the documentation of the git-branch command:
*snip*
--track::
	.... Set the
	branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to `false` if you want
	'git-checkout' and 'git-branch' to always behave as if 
	'--no-track' were given...
*snip*
and 
*snip*
--no-track::
	Ignore the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable.
*snip*
So, the description of branch.autosetupmerge is referencing --no-track and vice versa, thus the effective documentation is essentially missing as far as I understand.

txs and LieGrue, strub

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