Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:So --track does not set up a tracking branch, but makes a local _following_ branch _refer_ to a tracking branch. What happens with git checkout origin/branchX git branch --track mylocalbranch git checkout mylocalbranch ? What if after the checkout (which leads to a detached head) I check in a few things, and then decide to name the branch and set it up as following a remote tracking branch? Instead of using git-branch for setting up the following, do I have to explicitly add the respective "remote" line (which does not specify a remote, but a remote tracking branch) into, uh, where? Well, GOOD. I have already come to the conclusion that the "--track" option, like the "remote" configuration recorded by it have the main purpose of confusing people and should not be confused with setting up a remote tracking branch, or referring to a remote branch. You bet. It is much too fine-tuned already. I think that first option names and config file options need to get some coarse-tuning where one does not have to split hairs and ignore the meaning of terms in order to understand them. I have now "following" or "automerge" local branches which are set up to follow a "remote tracking" branch. Presumably, if I do git-branch -b new-branch --track remote-branch then I get a following branch set up which follows/automerges a remote tracking branch. So far so good. What do I get with git-branch -b another-new-branch --track new-branch Does this follow/automerges with new-branch? Does this follow/automerge with remote-branch? What if I do git-checkout remote-branch git-branch -b new-branch --track Does this follow anything? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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