Re: defaults for where to merge from

On 2/28/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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How about adding an option to tell checkout/branch that a tracking
branch is wanted (-t perhaps) - or perhaps a way to say that you don't
want to track the remote (depending on which is more popular)?

I don't think that you should be forced to do it explicitely. If you want
to merge in another branch, you can do that _explicitely_. So, defaulting
to what most people want anyway is A Good Thing.

As is an option to disable the feature. I.e. for scripts, which create branches
blindly, without knowing they working on a remote branch.
So, please, provide an option to do what git-checkout/git-branch did before:
which is just create the branch, nothing more.