Michael J Gruber venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 15:52: > Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 18.03.2009 23:46: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> Suggested by Pasky. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> >>> >>> In the longer term who suggested matters much less than why such a >>> feature is desirable, how it is used, and without it what is impossible >>> and/or cumbersome. What's the motivation behind this? >>> >>> You do not have to explain it to me, but you should explain it to the >>> history that records this commit, and to the users who read doccos. >> >> And that's not all... Documentation updates and tests for % and %<branch> >> are missing, too. >> >> My main motivation to make this patch was to see how fast I could come up >> with something working that does not hurt my eyes. >> >> But I do not have time to do more today: My main project as well as Git >> got accepted into the Google Summer of Code program, so I am even more >> swamped than usually. >> >> So... if anybody feels like it, I would be very thankful for a proper >> commit message, documentation and tests... > > Just a quick note that I'm feeling like it... Though it seems this does > not quite work with local branches, i.e. a branch created with > > git checkout --track -b tracking tracked > > with "tracked" being a local branch. I don't see why on first inspection > of the code (branch.tracking.merge = refs/heads/tracked, so what), but > maybe you will... So, for a local branch, branch_get() returns a branch without merge info even though it's in the config (the remote is "." here). "git branch --track" is specifically meant for (branching off a ) local branch, because it's the default for remote branches anyway. Right? Does not look right. Michael -- 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
