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From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: tracking branch for a rebase
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 06:54:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904135414.GA3728@honk.padd.com> (raw)

I received an interesting question today.

If "git pull" knows what remote tracking brach to pull from,
why doesn't "git rebase" automatically know I want to rebase
on top of my remote tracking branch?

He had done a "git remote update", reviewed the changes, and now
wants to rebase his changes on top of the new upstream.

I told him about git pull --rebase, and branch.name.rebase,
but didn't have an easy answer to the "what is my remote tracking
branch" question in this case.

All the information is in git config branch.name.{remote,merge},
but I can't find anything that just answers that question.  Nor
did I have a good answer for why "git rebase" doesn't just default
to rebasing the current branch on top of the tracking branch.

Thoughts?

		-- Pete

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04 13:54 Pete Wyckoff [this message]
2009-09-04 14:31 ` tracking branch for a rebase Michael J Gruber
2009-09-04 18:18   ` Jeff King
2009-09-04 18:59     ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-05  6:12       ` Jeff King
2009-09-05 14:01         ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-05 14:28           ` Jeff King
2009-09-07  5:05             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-07  8:14               ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-07  8:25                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-07  8:44                   ` Jeff King
2009-09-07  9:06                     ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-07  8:43               ` Jeff King
2009-09-07  9:29                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-07  9:53                   ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-08 23:17                     ` Julian Phillips
2009-09-09 10:45                   ` Jeff King
2009-09-10  6:42                     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10  7:47                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-10  9:36                         ` [PATCH] Introduce <branch>@{tracked} as shortcut to the tracked branch Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-10  9:44                           ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-10 10:14                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-10 10:18                             ` Johan Herland
2009-09-10 10:59                               ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-10 12:29                                 ` Johan Herland
2009-09-10 13:35                                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-10 14:17                                     ` Michael J Gruber
2009-09-10 11:11                               ` Jeff King
2009-09-10 18:29                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-02 14:54                                   ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-09-10 14:16                           ` Jeff King
2009-09-10 14:26                             ` Jeff King
2009-09-10 15:24                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-10 15:25                                 ` [PATCH v2] Introduce <branch>@{upstream} " Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-10 15:55                                   ` Jeff King
2009-09-10 16:18                                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-10 15:22                             ` [PATCH] Introduce <branch>@{tracked} " Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-11  4:54                         ` tracking branch for a rebase Junio C Hamano
2009-09-05 17:59           ` Junio C Hamano

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