Re: can we allow -t abbreviation for --track in 'git branch'

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2009, 04:23 UTC
Message-ID: <slrnh0cllu.juu.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vab5m9ujb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 2009-05-09, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Would it make sense to teach "git branch" the short option
>> "-t" the same way that "git checkout" knows it, (ie., as an
>> abbreviation for "--track")?
>>
>> I use both frequently, and often forget that in "git branch"
>> the short option does not work.
>>
>> If people think it's OK I'll submit a patch (code and doc).
>
> I have <20090428152119.GA18935@atc.tcs.com> (aka $gmane/117790) in my
> inbox.

Thanks. I posted it some days ago, but then began to wonder if there was more to that change than I thought, and perhaps I should have *asked* first.

Sitaram

PS: And I saw http://gitster.livejournal.com/33638.html only
just now... :-)