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Re: [PATCH] push: Re-include "push.default=tracking" in the documentation

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Oct 6, 2016, 09:13 UTC
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On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Change the documentation for push.tracking=* to re-include a mention
> of what "tracking" does.
>
> The "tracking" option was renamed to "upstream" back in
> 53c4031 ("push.default: Rename 'tracking' to 'upstream'", 2011-02-16),
> this section was then subsequently rewritten in 87a70e4 ("config doc:
> rewrite push.default section", 2013-06-19) to remove any mention of
> "tracking".
>
> Maybe we should just warn or die nowadays if this option is in the
> config, but I had some old config of mine use this option, I'd
> forgotten that it was a synonym, and nothing in git's documentation
> mentioned that.
>
> That's bad, either we shouldn't support it at all, or we should
> document what it does. This patch does the latter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
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Message 2 of 8 in “push: Re-include "push.default=tracking" in the documentation”
  1. push: Re-include "push.default=tracking" in the documentationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Oct 6, 2016
  2. Johan HerlandOct 6, 2016
  3. Matthieu MoyOct 6, 2016
  4. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 6, 2016
  5. Matthieu MoyOct 6, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2016
  7. push: Re-include "push.default=tracking" in the documentationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Mar 19, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2017

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