# [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track 6 messages from 2008-04-23 to 2008-04-27. Participants: Miklos Vajna, Junio C Hamano, Johannes Schindelin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13235 ## Miklos Vajna, 2008-04-23 23:04 Subject: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track Message-ID: <20080423230448.GL4012@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080423230448.GL4012%40genesis.frugalware.org ``` Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna --- Just like 'git checkout -q' is an alias for 'git checkout --quiet', I often type 'git checkout -t -b newname master', then realize I need '--track', but in fact '-t' is not used for anything else, so it can be just a short name for --track. Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +- builtin-checkout.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index e11cddb..a644173 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ OPTIONS by linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1]. Some of these checks may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name. ---track:: +-t, --track:: When creating a new branch, set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically retrieve data from the start point, which must be a branch. Use this if you always pull from the same upstream branch diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c index 7deb504..1a93d13 100644 --- a/builtin-checkout.c +++ b/builtin-checkout.c @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT__QUIET(&opts.quiet), OPT_STRING('b', NULL, &opts.new_branch, "new branch", "branch"), OPT_BOOLEAN('l', NULL, &opts.new_branch_log, "log for new branch"), - OPT_SET_INT( 0 , "track", &opts.track, "track", + OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts.track, "track", BRANCH_TRACK_EXPLICIT), OPT_BOOLEAN('f', NULL, &opts.force, "force"), OPT_BOOLEAN('m', NULL, &opts.merge, "merge"), -- 1.5.5 ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2008-04-27 06:10 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track Message-ID: <7vmynfj0a4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vmynfj0a4.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <20080423230448.GL4012@genesis.frugalware.org> ``` I do not have anything against this, but I do not see how this is useful in practice, given that branch.autosetupmerge is true by default these days. List? ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2008-04-27 06:25 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track Message-ID: <7v1w4rizlm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v1w4rizlm.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <7vmynfj0a4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` Junio C Hamano writes: > I do not have anything against this, but I do not see how this is useful > in practice,... Oops, wrong wording from a drunken panda who is not used to alcoholic beverage. Sorry. What I meant to say was that this may be useful to _some_ degree but probably _not very much_. I should go to bed now. ``` ## Miklos Vajna, 2008-04-27 11:41 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track Message-ID: <20080427114152.GS4012@genesis.frugalware.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080427114152.GS4012%40genesis.frugalware.org In-Reply-To: <7v1w4rizlm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> ``` On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > What I meant to say was that this may be useful to _some_ degree but > probably _not very much_. Yes, it's just about my "having short option aliases are good" idea. Should I improve the commit message by mentioning that this is useful "in case you don't want to have branch.autosetupmerge set to true for some reason"? ``` ## Johannes Schindelin, 2008-04-27 11:48 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.0804271247030.16320%40eeepc-johanness In-Reply-To: <20080427114152.GS4012@genesis.frugalware.org> ``` Hi, On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > What I meant to say was that this may be useful to _some_ degree but > > probably _not very much_. > > Yes, it's just about my "having short option aliases are good" idea. > Should I improve the commit message by mentioning that this is useful > "in case you don't want to have branch.autosetupmerge set to true for > some reason"? AFAIR you still need to specify --track if you want to setup tracking information for local branches, and have branch.autosetupmerge different than "always", but as always, I might be mistaken. Ciao, Dscho ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2008-04-27 17:33 Subject: Re: [PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track Message-ID: <7v8wyzgq3o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v8wyzgq3o.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Miklos Vajna wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> > What I meant to say was that this may be useful to _some_ degree but >> > probably _not very much_. >> >> Yes, it's just about my "having short option aliases are good" idea. >> Should I improve the commit message by mentioning that this is useful >> "in case you don't want to have branch.autosetupmerge set to true for >> some reason"? > > AFAIR you still need to specify --track if you want to setup tracking > information for local branches, and have branch.autosetupmerge different > than "always", but as always, I might be mistaken. Ah, you are right. The change is fine as-is regardless of the "autosetupmerge" thing. ```