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authorLibravatar Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2007-07-08 13:41:21 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-08 18:24:19 -0700
commit4017761fd89060f2b57d7799f6bbda8b3568d3d4 (patch)
treef9cc92a65c84f7ef05a25eb85d95f0fba19405cd /Documentation
parentgit-stash: try reusing cached stat info as much as possible (diff)
downloadtgif-4017761fd89060f2b57d7799f6bbda8b3568d3d4.tar.xz
branch.autosetupmerge: allow boolean values, or "all"
Junio noticed that switching on autosetupmerge unilaterally started cluttering the config for local branches. That is not the original intention of branch.autosetupmerge, which was meant purely for convenience when branching off of remote branches, but that semantics got lost somewhere. If you still want that "new" behavior, you can switch branch.autosetupmerge to the value "all". Otherwise, it is interpreted as a boolean, which triggers setting up defaults _only_ when branching off of a remote branch, i.e. the originally intended behavior. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 4b67f0adf7..aeece848a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -309,7 +309,10 @@ branch.autosetupmerge::
so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
remote branch. Note that even if this option is not set,
this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
- and `--no-track` options. This option defaults to false.
+ and `--no-track` options. This option can have values
+ 'false' (never touch the configuration), 'all' (do this
+ for all branches), or 'true' (do this only when
+ branching from a remote tracking branch), and defaults to 'true'.
branch.<name>.remote::
When in branch <name>, it tells `git fetch` which remote to fetch.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 818b720b91..82929523c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -52,8 +52,9 @@ OPTIONS
set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
retrieve data from the remote branch. Set the
branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
- want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
- '--track' were given.
+ want git-checkout and git-branch to behave as if
+ '--track' were given when you branch from a remote
+ tracking branch.
--no-track::
When -b is given and a branch is created off a remote branch,