# 2 things about branches

2 messages from 2007-02-19 to 2007-02-19. Participants: Raimund Bauer, J. Bruce Fields.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6883

## Raimund Bauer, 2007-02-19 18:13

Subject: 2 things about branches
Message-ID: <1171908840.10817.21.camel@localhost>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1171908840.10817.21.camel%40localhost

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I think it's a good idea to not list remote branches in 'git branch'
output per default, but imho we should make an exception for the branch
the user is currently on.
Currently when I do 'git checkout origin/next' the checkout works fine
and I get the warning about the remote branch, but an informational
query 'git branch' right after that says

* (no branch)
  master

'git branch -r' also doesn't mark me as being on origin/next.
Maybe we could query the remote-branches for a matching ref this case?

And another wish about branches:
After a fresh clone of git, my .git/config contains a section

[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = refs/heads/master

so it's easy to keep the branch updated by just saying 'git pull' when
on branch master.

Doing 'git checkout -b next origin/next' gives me my own next-branch,
but short of editing .git/config there seems to be no way to get a
similar section [branch "next"] ... so I can follow next as easy as
master.
I'm not sure if there exists a sane default we could use automatically,
but maybe a switch to git-checkout to write a config entry would be
possible?

Thanks for listening to my rambling

-- 
best regards

  Ray

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## J. Bruce Fields, 2007-02-19 18:37

Subject: Re: 2 things about branches
Message-ID: <20070219183703.GB29930@fieldses.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070219183703.GB29930%40fieldses.org
In-Reply-To: <1171908840.10817.21.camel@localhost>

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On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:13:59PM +0100, Raimund Bauer wrote:
> I think it's a good idea to not list remote branches in 'git branch'
> output per default, but imho we should make an exception for the branch
> the user is currently on.
> Currently when I do 'git checkout origin/next' the checkout works fine
> and I get the warning about the remote branch, but an informational
> query 'git branch' right after that says
> 
> * (no branch)
>   master
> 
> 'git branch -r' also doesn't mark me as being on origin/next.

That's because you're not really "on" origin/next.  Your currently
checked-out state happens to be the same as the state that origin/next
points at, but that's not quite the same thing.  The main difference
being that if you commit something, origin/next won't be moved forward
to point at the new commit.

> Maybe we could query the remote-branches for a matching ref this case?

If that's what you want you could use e.g.

	git describe --all

--b.

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