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Re: easy way to make tracking branches?

From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 18, 2009, 15:37 UTC
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On 2009-01-18, Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> wrote:
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> Now I want to make "foo" a tracking branch for "bar".
> I do:
>
> 	git config branch.foo.remote srv
> 	git config branch.foo.merge refs/heads/bar

I just do a "git pull srv" when the tracking is *not* setup, and git reminds me what commands to use.

> And to get a comfortable git-push, I do:
>
> 	git config --add remote.srv.push foo:bar
This one you'll just have to remember, I guess :-)
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> 	git checkout -b foo2 srv/bar
> 	git branch -d foo
> 	git branch -m foo
>
> which is suboptimal because deleting foo can remove some
> other settings for the branch, e.g. mergeoptions.

it also doesn't seem to set remote.srv.push, as far as I can tell.

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