Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] remote tracking: return the tracking branch for the given branches

On Thu, 18 June 2009, Santi Béjar wrote:

2009/6/18 Jakub Narebski [off-list ref]:

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 $ git remote tracking <remote> <remote branch>

would show all local branches that track <remote branch>, and have
<remote> as default remote,

Maybe my description is unclear, but it's not about local branches
which track <branch> on <remote>, it is about the local branch
representation of the remote branch, i.e. not 'master' but
origin/master (git remote tracking origin master in a default clone).

Ah, the problem with the same (or similar) name for two different 
things.  If we have local branch 'local' set to track branch 'master'
on remote 'origin', we have:

   /------- local repository ------\            /- origin -\
  /                                 \          /            \
  |                                 |          |            |
  'local'  -------->  'origin/master' -----------> 'master' 
  refs/heads/local    refs/remotes/origin/master   refs/heads/master                

  branch.local.remote = origin
  branch.local.merge  = refs/heads/master

  remote.origin.fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

'origin/master' is called remote-TRACKING branch (for 'master' branch
on remote 'origin').  Setting up automerge information for local branch
'local' which _follows_ branch 'master' on remote 'origin' is done 
using --TRACK option to git-branch.

Therefore the confusion.


Do I understand correctly that you want for

  $ git remote tracking origin master

to return

  origin/master

(and perhaps also origin/HEAD?).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland