From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:48:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804271247030.16320@eeepc-johanness>
In-Reply-To: <20080427114152.GS4012@genesis.frugalware.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote:

> 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