Re: git pull behavior changed?

From: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 21, 2010, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <z2t3abd05a91004211541y1c2c5467k5731819da7fe625@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8w8gjvhn.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

> Otherwise, --set-upstream may help. But neither will help untill you
> RTFM.

Matthieu, I spend my days reading the git manual and also the source code, which is not normal IMHO. I always look for examples but in the case of 'git branch' there is not many that are really useful!

I suggest to add this as an example since it is probably the most common case (one would expect that a new branch simply mimics the characteristics of the starting branch, no ?)

  git branch --track small_fixes origin

And it does what I want.

Again, the behavior changed: just upgraded to 1.7.0.3, before then I was doing branches like this:

  git checkout -b small_fixes
  git pull

>From my point of view, that was neat!

The --track and <start-point>=origin seemed to be implied. I find that this is a better better default (OR 'git pull' was defaulting to 'git pull origin HEAD').

As of now, 'git branch x' seem to be of little use without more configuration.

  -- aghiles