Re: Using the --track option when creating a branch

Bill Lear wrote:

On Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 06:04:54 (-0600) Bill Lear writes:

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On Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 22:12:18 (-0700) Sam Vilain writes:

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On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 09:23 -0600, Bill Lear wrote:

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We use git in a way that makes it desirable for us to only push/pull
to the same remote branch.  So, if I'm in branch X, I want 'git push'
to push to origin/X, and 'git pull' to fetch into origin/X and then
merge into X from origin/X.

In other words, we want git push/pull to behave in branches other than
master the same way it does when in master.

I have discovered the '--track' option when creating a local branch,
and this appears to me to be the thing that gives us the desired
behavior.

As things currently stand this is not achievable behaviour.  The
behaviour of 'git push' is to push all matching refs.  If you are lucky
this is what you intended, but it also pushes any changes to *other*
branches that you have made.

I have tabled a change proposal to make it work as you suggest in a
separate thread.

Ok, now I'm confused.  The ONLY thing I want to prevent is the
"crossing of streams" issue.  If I am on branch X and issue 'git
push', I want X, and ONLY X, to be pushed to the remote repository's X
branch --- I don't care if other branches are pushed to their
respective remote branches, as long as they don't get merged to X.

Oh, and also the same thing for 'git pull' --- sorry to leave that out.

This particular bikeshed was painted a long time ago, with the consensus
going in favour of "git push" pushing all *matching* refspecs.

To convince people, I think you need to either come up with arguments
nullifying all the arguments *for* pushing all matching refspecs along
with patches to make the default configurable, with your preferred way
as a default, and a nifty enough shorthand for pushing/fetching all
matching refspecs. For preference, they should be at least 3 separate
patches.

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