Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] remote tracking: return the tracking branch for the given branches
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:58
Hi, On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Santi Béjar wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 9e2b4ea..e444899 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git remote show' [-n] <name> 'git remote prune' [-n | --dry-run] <name> 'git remote update' [-p | --prune] [group | remote]... +'git remote tracking' <name> <branch>... DESCRIPTION -----------@@ -128,6 +129,12 @@ be updated. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). + With `--prune` option, prune all the remotes that are updated. +'tracking':: + +Returns the tracking branch for the given remote (<name>) and branch +(<branch>). Note that <branch> must exactly match the left hand side of +the refspec of the given remote. +
From that description, it is not clear to me if the branch is the _remote_
branch, the branch _on_ the remote, or the local branch. If it is the remote branch (or the branch on the remote), I wonder how you deal with ambiguities, as I can easily create hundreds of branches tracking the same remote branch. If it is the local branch I wonder why I have to pass the name of the remote. Ciao, Dscho