Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 06.04.2009 23:29:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:00:34PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>
>>> + if (!strcmp(name, "tracking")) {
>>> + struct branch *branch;
>>> + if (prefixcmp(ref->refname, "refs/heads/"))
>>> + continue;
>>> + branch = branch_get(ref->refname + 11);
>>> + if (branch && branch->merge && branch->merge[0] &&
>>> + branch->merge[0]->dst)
>>> + v->s = branch->merge[0]->dst;
>>
>> Isn't that missing out on those cases where you --track (i.e. follow) a
>> local (upstream) branch? See
>> 5e6e2b4 (Make local branches behave like remote branches when --tracked,
>> 2009-04-01)
>
> I thought the logic was in branch_get to handle it. And indeed:
>
> $ git checkout --track -b new master
> Branch new set up to track local branch master.
> Switched to a new branch "new"
> $ git for-each-ref --format='%(refname) %(tracking)'
> refs/heads/master
> refs/heads/new refs/heads/master
>
> So it will point either to something in refs/remotes or in refs/heads,
> as applicable.
Uhm, yes, sorry for the noise. It was actually me who fixed branch_get()...
>
>> If we hook it up into git-branch there would be to useful directions:
>
> The difference being that git-branch is porcelain and git-for-each-ref
> is plumbing. So they really serve different purposes.
>
>> - "git branch --follows foo" could list all branches which follow foo,
>> analogous to --contains. It gives you all your feature work on top of
>> foo, all branches affected by rebasing foo etc.
>
> Sure, that would probably be useful.
>
>> - "git branch --whatever foo" could list the branch whoch foo follows.
>>
>> I just notices that "git branch -v foo" does not give me the "-v" output
>> for foo... Improving that would open up the possibility to go for -vv foo.
>
> See the "-vv" patch I just posted elsewhere in the thread.
I'll comment there ;)
Michael
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