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| author | Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> | 2021-12-21 04:30:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-12-21 07:40:21 +0100 |
| commit | d3115660b4cc4b1a32e77ddfd289afde5e4b94d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 5baeee60cbaafcb23d7ce8ac27941affdd47fdfb /builtin/checkout.c | |
| parent | branch: accept multiple upstream branches for tracking (diff) | |
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branch: add flags and config to inherit tracking
It can be helpful when creating a new branch to use the existing
tracking configuration from the branch point. However, there is
currently not a method to automatically do so.
Teach git-{branch,checkout,switch} an "inherit" argument to the
"--track" option. When this is set, creating a new branch will cause the
tracking configuration to default to the configuration of the branch
point, if set.
For example, if branch "main" tracks "origin/main", and we run
`git checkout --track=inherit -b feature main`, then branch "feature"
will track "origin/main". Thus, `git status` will show us how far
ahead/behind we are from origin, and `git pull` will pull from origin.
This is particularly useful when creating branches across many
submodules, such as with `git submodule foreach ...` (or if running with
a patch such as [1], which we use at $job), as it avoids having to
manually set tracking info for each submodule.
Since we've added an argument to "--track", also add "--track=direct" as
another way to explicitly get the original "--track" behavior ("--track"
without an argument still works as well).
Finally, teach branch.autoSetupMerge a new "inherit" option. When this
is set, "--track=inherit" becomes the default behavior.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180927221603.148025-1-sbeller@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/checkout.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/checkout.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index cbf73b8c9f..8d511aa6b7 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -1530,8 +1530,10 @@ static struct option *add_common_switch_branch_options( { struct option options[] = { OPT_BOOL('d', "detach", &opts->force_detach, N_("detach HEAD at named commit")), - OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts->track, N_("set upstream info for new branch"), - BRANCH_TRACK_EXPLICIT), + OPT_CALLBACK_F('t', "track", &opts->track, "direct|inherit", + N_("set up tracking mode (see git-pull(1))"), + PARSE_OPT_OPTARG | PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP, + parse_opt_tracking_mode), OPT__FORCE(&opts->force, N_("force checkout (throw away local modifications)"), PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE), OPT_STRING(0, "orphan", &opts->new_orphan_branch, N_("new-branch"), N_("new unparented branch")), |