How to specify a default <start-point> for git branch

Is it possible in git to configure a default <start-point> for the git-branch command?

For some workflows it could be useful to define e.g. a remote-tracking branch as the default <start-point> for new branches. Then there would be a tracking configuration for each created branch and tools like ALM tools could easily determine the remote repository.

For EGit-/JGit-development there is a proposal in Gerrit to add a new config parameter workflow.defaultsourceref (http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4168). I suggested to use workflow.branchstartpoint instead.

What do you think about such a property?

Lay, Stefan wrote:

Is it possible in git to configure a default <start-point> for the git-branch command?

Literally as you propose it's probably not going to happen.  It would
break every script ever written that uses "git branch <foo>" to start
a new branch at the current commit.

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Thomas Rast
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