easy way to make tracking branches?

Hi,

assume I have a branch "foo" in my local repo, a remote "srv", and a branch "bar" on srv (i.e. generated with "git push srv foo:bar").

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

And to get a comfortable git-push, I do:

	git config --add remote.srv.push foo:bar

Because I do not always remember the sequence, I have to look it up or I just do

	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.

So I wonder if there is some easier-to-remind way to let my branch foo track my remote branch bar, or, if not, could it be useful to have something like

	git push --make-tracking srv foo:bar
	# push foo -> bar and let foo track bar...
	# if foo already tracks bar, ignore the option

or should I just write a tiny script for me and shut up? :-)

Regards,
  Stephan

On 2009-01-18, Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> wrote:

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

This one you'll just have to remember, I guess :-)

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

Hi,

Sitaram Chamarty wrote:

Oh, this is great! (Just tested.)

Usually (in my use case) there is no need to pull before I set up a tracking branch, so I never tried this.

And git only reminds you if you have no tracking branch set for srv yet. But that's no problem, because if one is set I can copy&paste the lines in .git/config.

Altogether, this is a solution I can live with.

This is not too hard. :-)

Right.

Thanks,
  Stephan