Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] remote tracking: return the tracking branch for the given branches

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 18, 2009, 12:35 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0906181433330.4297@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <1245311834-5290-2-git-send-email-santi@agolina.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Santi Béjar wrote:

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> diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
> index 9e2b4ea..e444899 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  'git remote show' [-n] <name>
>  'git remote prune' [-n | --dry-run] <name>
>  'git remote update' [-p | --prune] [group | remote]...
> +'git remote tracking' <name> <branch>...
>  
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> @@ -128,6 +129,12 @@ be updated.  (See linkgit:git-config[1]).
>  +
>  With `--prune` option, prune all the remotes that are updated.
>  
> +'tracking'::
> +
> +Returns the tracking branch for the given remote (<name>) and branch
> +(<branch>). Note that <branch> must exactly match the left hand side of
> +the refspec of the given remote.
> +

>From that description, it is not clear to me if the branch is the _remote_

branch, the branch _on_ the remote, or the local branch.

If it is the remote branch (or the branch on the remote), I wonder how you deal with ambiguities, as I can easily create hundreds of branches tracking the same remote branch.

If it is the local branch I wonder why I have to pass the name of the remote.

Ciao, Dscho