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How to specify a default <start-point> for git branch

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LSLay, Stefan <stefan.lay@sap.com>
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Sep 8, 2011, 08:00 UTC
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Is it possible in git to configure a default <start-point> for the git-branch command?
For some workflows it could be useful to define e.g. a remote-tracking branch as the default <start-point> for new branches. Then there would be a tracking configuration for each created branch and tools like ALM tools could easily determine the remote repository.
For EGit-/JGit-development there is a proposal in Gerrit to add a new config parameter workflow.defaultsourceref (http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4168). I suggested to use workflow.branchstartpoint instead.
What do you think about such a property?
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  1. Lay, StefanSep 8, 2011
  2. Thomas RastSep 8, 2011

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