Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> writes: > However, there's still this issue: > $ git checkout -b foo origin/pu > Branch foo set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/pu. > Switched to a new branch "foo" > > git checkout will say that every time a branch is created from a > tracking branch, unless one tells it --no-track (which people don't > learn about unless they're really into git), so it's quite natural > that people think git will actually make sure, within reasonable > limits, that 'foo' is kept in sync with refs/remotes/origin/pu. > That's not the case, however. > > So we could either change the message to be: > "Branch foo set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/pu, > provided you only ever issue git-pull while having branch foo > checked out." > > Or we could make 'git checkout -b' default to --no-track, perhaps > giving annoying messages everytime someone "git-checkout -b"'s a > remote tracking branch. > Or we could make git-pull keep git checkout's promises. The thing is, if you have 200 local branches (because you interact with 50 repositories with 4 primary branches each), you do not constantly check all of them out anyway. And the only place that staleness of the local tracking fork matters is when you check it out (that is, as long as you train your users that the way to check differences with the upstream 'pu' in your case is by doing operations with 'origin/pu' not with your local 'foo'). With that in mind, how about making "git checkout foo", after foo is set up thusly, to show: git log --pretty=oneline --left-right origin/pu...foo if (and only if) they have diverged? Then you can deal with the staleness of local tracking fork 'foo' in any way you want. You could even go one step further and make this "checkout foo", in addition to or instead of showing the above left-right log, - automatically run "git merge origin/pu" if it is a fast-forward, and say it did _not_ run that merge if it is not a fast-forward; - automatically run "git merge origin/pu" always, even if it is not a fast-forward; - automatically run "git rebase origin/pu" always; Would that make your life easier? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
