Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 10.09.2009 15:35:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Johan Herland wrote:
>
>> I think I vote for the second option, renaming 'git branch --track'
>> to 'git branch --upstream', and s/@{tracked}/@{upstream}/.
>
> That does not make any sense, as that --track is to be understood as a
> verb. How do you "upstream a branch"?
Well, that brunch also got its granma wrong tho his speeling is right ;)
Seriously: In
git branch --track branch1 branch2
who tracks whom if you read "--track" as a verb?
So, "--track" can only be understood as an attribute to the main (first)
argument, saying it's tracking something. Just as --upstream could be
read as an attribute meaning "has an upstream".
(Note also how different this is from how -b works for checkout, -b
actually taking an argument: git checkout -b branch1 branch2)
Cheers,
Michael
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