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[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"),
-- 
1.5.5
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