On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/54822/ > > I do not think the description of remote-tracking in that article is > correct. We use the word to call remote/origin/<name> that keeps copies > of what we saw over there when we last observed. > > The way to mark local branches to merge with/rebase onto something else > by default is --track option to "git branch" and "git checkout -b", and > that is often used to mark them to --track remote-tracking branches but > they do not have to --track remote-tracking branches. They can --track > local branches as well. Yes, I noticed this as I re-read the thread. --track and --no-track are unfortunately poorly named, but that's ancient history. I've summarized the thread just before you sent this message. I'll update my summary to note this point. :-) j. -- 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
