git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Do most people feel tracking branches useful?

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Oct 29, 2008, 09:08 UTC
Message-ID
<buoprlj4vle.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To
<49082514.9050405@gmail.com>
Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com> writes:
> do most people feel tracking branches useful?

Extremely useful. I usually keep local branches closely synchronized with a remote "central" version, and tracking branches make the frequent push/pull much more convenient.

I often delete the default local "master" branch though, and have only one local branch per working directory (and like you, use origin/... for much interbranch synchronization, e.g. rebasing).

-Miles
-- 
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
 you do it."  Mahatma Gandhi
Previous: Liu YubaoNext: Liu Yubao
Message 2 of 9 in “Do most people feel tracking branches useful?”
  1. Liu YubaoOct 29, 2008
  2. Miles BaderOct 29, 2008
  3. Liu YubaoOct 29, 2008
  4. Miles BaderOct 29, 2008
  5. Andreas EricssonOct 29, 2008
  6. Liu YubaoOct 29, 2008
  7. Andreas EricssonOct 29, 2008
  8. Björn SteinbrinkOct 29, 2008
  9. Liu YubaoOct 29, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.