From: Tay Ray Chuan Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:37:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git push --track Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87eilt5uzx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Hi, On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Miles Bader wrote: > Tay Ray Chuan writes: >> before I put up my comments on the patch, I wonder if git-push is the >> best place to add this feature, as git-push usually deals with >> "pushing" data to another repo. >> >> I think git-branch would be a better place to do this. > > No.  I think push is absolutely the right place to do it. > > I very often create local branches and only later decide that I'd also > like to push them to a remote -- but just as often, or more often, I > never do so.  It would be extremely annoying if I had to make that > decision at branch-time. I'm not saying that the feature should belong to git-branch and so you have to make this decision at branch time - I'm saying that since this has got to do with modifying branches (sort of), it should be in there. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan