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Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 27, 2008, 11:48 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0804271247030.16320@eeepc-johanness>
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Hi,
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > What I meant to say was that this may be useful to _some_ degree but 
> > probably _not very much_.
> 
> Yes, it's just about my "having short option aliases are good" idea. 
> Should I improve the commit message by mentioning that this is useful 
> "in case you don't want to have branch.autosetupmerge set to true for 
> some reason"?

AFAIR you still need to specify --track if you want to setup tracking information for local branches, and have branch.autosetupmerge different than "always", but as always, I might be mistaken.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. git checkout: add -t alias for --trackMiklos Vajna, Apr 23, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2008
  4. Miklos VajnaApr 27, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinApr 27, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2008

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