# rfe: set up tracking the quick way

1 messages from 2008-10-18 to 2008-10-18. Participants: Jan Engelhardt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15946

## Jan Engelhardt, 2008-10-18 03:55

Subject: rfe: set up tracking the quick way
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Hi,


sometimes it happens that I want to issue `git pull`, but then it nicely 
tells me that there is no remote branch set up to be tracked (that's my 
fault then), and goes on to tell me two longish git config commands to 
issue to make it so...

	git config branch.master.remote origin
	git config branch.master.merge master

76 chars to type. Can we have a short variant? Something like

	git track origin/master

or of similar shortness that operates on the current branch.

thanks,
Jan

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