From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:14:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce <branch>@{tracked} as shortcut to the tracked branch
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0909101211340.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4AA8CA88.9060802@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 10.09.2009 11:36:
> > 
> > Often, it is quite interesting to inspect the branch tracked by a given
> > branch.  This patch introduces a nice notation to get at the tracked
> > branch: '<branch>@{tracked}' can be used to access that tracked branch.
> > 
> > A special shortcut '@{tracked}' refers to the branch tracked by the
> > current branch.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't know the name of the long form was up for discussion.
> But it should certainly coincide with the key which for-each-ref uses,
> shouldn't it? I don't care whether tracked or upstream, but
> for-each-ref's "upstream" has set the precedent.

You're right.

sed -i -e 's/@{tracked}/@{upstream}/g' -e 's/@{t}/@{u}/g' $PATCH

Ciao,
Dscho