[PATCH] git checkout: add -t alias for --track
From: Miklos Vajna <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:31
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <redacted> --- Just like 'git checkout -q' is an alias for 'git checkout --quiet', I often type 'git checkout -t -b newname master', then realize I need '--track', but in fact '-t' is not used for anything else, so it can be just a short name for --track. Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +- builtin-checkout.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index e11cddb..a644173 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ OPTIONS by linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1]. Some of these checks may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name. ---track:: +-t, --track:: When creating a new branch, set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically retrieve data from the start point, which must be a branch. Use this if you always pull from the same upstream branch
diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
index 7deb504..1a93d13 100644
--- a/builtin-checkout.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout.c@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT__QUIET(&opts.quiet), OPT_STRING('b', NULL, &opts.new_branch, "new branch", "branch"), OPT_BOOLEAN('l', NULL, &opts.new_branch_log, "log for new branch"), - OPT_SET_INT( 0 , "track", &opts.track, "track", + OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts.track, "track", BRANCH_TRACK_EXPLICIT), OPT_BOOLEAN('f', NULL, &opts.force, "force"), OPT_BOOLEAN('m', NULL, &opts.merge, "merge"),
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