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

Samuel Tardieu wrote:

* Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] [2008-10-30 15:54:53 +0100]

quoted

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't my suggestion of not trying to
push (even matching) branches that haven't been updated since we last
fetched from the remote do exactly the same thing for your particular
use-case, but without syntax change and all the annoying minor parts
that it entails?

Not exactly. I often do some work on a branch which does not mandate
a topic branch and have to switch branches to fix a bug for example.
This would continue to push unterminated changes as well.

Typical use case, which happens (to me) quite frequently:

...

Argh, "master" has been pushed as well. Ok, I could have done

Ah, I see. I sympathize, although I really do think you'd be
better off by learning to explicitly push things.

  % git branch
    (because I know I am on the right branch but do not necessarily
     remember its full name all the time)

offtopic: Use shell-completion and set your PS1 to include the __git_ps1
output.

  % git push origin 2.0-beta1-release-candidate

or I could have started a topic branch, but I often push 2 or 3
commits at a time instead, the first one being a refactoring of
existing code to ease the subsequent one.

I fail to see why this would prevent you from starting a topic-branch.
In fact, I would have thought it was a reason *for* starting a topic.

quoted

From what I have seen, people I am working with often have the

same workflow (do not systematically start a topic branch when
in active development mode)

quoted

Define "many". Perhaps as often as 2-3 times per day. Not very often,
but frequent enough that I definitely want some short sweet way of
doing it. OTOH, I also find the "rejected" messages annoying, and I
definitely feel one could do something about them. However, it's my
birthday today and I plan on being far too drunk/hungover the entire
weekend for me to take any actions in that direction.

Happy birthday :)

Thank you :-)

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