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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2007-07-10 18:50:44 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-11 16:03:58 -0700
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branch --track: code cleanup and saner handling of local branches
This patch cleans up some complicated code, and replaces it with a cleaner version, using code from remote.[ch], which got extended a little in the process. This also enables us to fix two cases: The earlier "fix" to setup tracking only when the original ref started with "refs/remotes" is wrong. You are absolutely allowed to use a separate layout for your tracking branches. The correct fix, of course, is to set up tracking information only when there is a matching remote.<nick>.fetch line containing a colon. Another corner case was not handled properly. If two remotes write to the original ref, just warn the user and do not set up tracking. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -52,9 +52,8 @@ OPTIONS
set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the
branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
- want git-checkout and git-branch to behave as if
- '--track' were given when you branch from a remote
- tracking branch.
+ want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
+ '--track' were given.
--no-track::
When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,