From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:45:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] git-branch: allow --track to work w/local branches
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802161143290.30505@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ih5fpve.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This area was last cleaned up in 6f084a5 (branch --track: code cleanup 
> and saner handling of local branches).  I do not know if the original 
> intention of the code was to allow a hack like this to work, or it is 
> just an unintended accident that it happens to work.  Dscho, any ideas?

AFAIR the problem was that you were (rightfully) annoyed when you were 
setting up your local branches, and all of a sudden, they were set up with 
loads of tracking information, cluttering your config.

Basically, that is the reason why we disallowed tracking information to be 
set up for local branching.

Ciao,
Dscho