Re: setting up tracking on push

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Mar 6, 2009, 11:15 UTC
Message-ID: <buoy6vi297q.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903061144480.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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>> > I vaguely feel like I should be able to do:
>> >
>> >  git push --track origin grognul
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> http://search.gmane.org/?query=push+track&group=gmane.comp.version-control.git
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> Summary for the lazy: it needs a lot of work to be implemented properly.

Alternatively, maybe a "git track [REMOTE [BRANCH]]" command that simply adds makes adding the appropriate config magic more convenient ?

I dunno what the arg syntax would look like in the general case; I almost always want to use the current branch, and track an identically named branch in the origin remote though...

-Miles

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