Re: [PATCH] push: Learn to set up branch tracking with '--track'

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:33:08PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > So I think this patch is going about it the wrong way. Instead of
> > parsing the refspec, I think you actually want to look at what we _do_
> > push (or at least try to push -- probably even uptodate refs should also
> > have tracking established), and use that. Then you will have wildcards
> > expanded, --all handled, etc. And I suspect all you have to do is
> > iterate over the result of match_refs (which we call later), which
> > should be even easier (because you don't have to parse the refspecs
> > yourself). But I haven't looked carefully.
> 
> Something like the patch below (which is obviously missing all of the 
> infrastructure for doing this optionally, but is meant to illustrate 
> what I'm talking about).