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[PATCH] RelNotes: mention checkout/branch's --track option, too

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 23, 2008, 11:35 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.LSU.1.00.0803231235230.4353@racer.site>
In-Reply-To
<7vprtl92jj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

checkout and branch recently learnt to track local branches when branch.autosetupmerge = always, but they _also_ learnt to do that when asked explicitely with the option "--track".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt
index 14beed4..18ff82b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes-1.5.5.txt
@@ -79,8 +79,9 @@ Updates since v1.5.4
  * "git branch" (and "git checkout -b") to branch from a local branch can
    optionally set "branch.<name>.merge" to mark the new branch to build on
    the other local branch, when "branch.autosetupmerge" is set to
-   "always".  By default, this does not happen when branching from a local
-   branch.
+   "always", or when passing the command line option "--track" (this option
+   was ignored when branching from local branches).  By default, this does
+   not happen when branching from a local branch.
 
  * "git checkout" to switch to a branch that has "branch.<name>.merge" set
    (i.e. marked to build on another branch) reports how much the branch
-- 
1.5.5.rc0.190.gb64f
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