Miles Bader <miles@xxxxxxx> writes: > I agree, and that's the use-case that prompted my original query. I > very often create a new branch locally, and later push it to origin > with an intent to subsequently keep it synced with the new remote > branch. Oh, and I also always use the syntax: git push origin BRANCH_NAME As the (apparent) objection adding "git push --track" was the question of what the behavior would be in the general case (where lots of branches can be pushed), maybe restricting "--track" to only specific cases would be a possible solution? -Miles -- 97% of everything is grunge -- 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