From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet•fi>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, gitster@pobox•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make it easy to use branch --track on existing branch
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:53:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqska4n5pr.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100117144031.GA20335@Knoppix> (Ilari Liusvaara's message of "Sun\, 17 Jan 2010 16\:40\:31 +0200")
Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet•fi> writes:
> But If I read the patch correctly, you can't just arbitrarily set the
> tracking branch since the IDs must match.
Yes. The patch really helps when you already have synchronized, or
when you haven't already desynchronized your local branch and its
upstream.
We could go one step further, and allow the new branch point to be
different as long as it has the old point as an ancestor, but that
would still be a ref update.
> [*] Yes, I know you can edit .git/config, but I would want "official sounding"
> (read: git remote subcommand) command to edit it (and no, delete & recreate
> doesn't do the right thing).
Having a "git remote subcommand" to do the same thing could help too,
but it could just come in addition to my patch.
My patch doesn't introduce new complexity: the command is already
there, and the use-case I'm allowing are legitimate. So, it can help
to let users run in, and it doesn't harm.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-17 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 14:06 [PATCH 0/2] Make it easy to use branch --track on existing branch Matthieu Moy
2010-01-17 14:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] branch: allow creating a branch with same name and same starting point Matthieu Moy
2010-01-17 19:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-17 14:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] branch: warn and refuse to set a branch as a tracking branch of itself Matthieu Moy
2010-01-17 14:40 ` [PATCH 0/2] Make it easy to use branch --track on existing branch Ilari Liusvaara
2010-01-17 14:53 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2010-01-17 15:29 ` Ilari Liusvaara
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