On Thursday 08 September 2011, Juha Heinanen wrote:
Alex Hermann writes:
Is local mtree branch supposed to track master?
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From the above commands, I don't see why it should. Local branch jh tracks origin/jh/mtree, not master. So why would a master change suddenly appear in the jh branch? I would expect changes you push to origin/jh/mtree to appear in your local jh branch after a pull, nothing else.
if jh/mtree tracks master (as it according to the wiki page is supposed to do) and when jh tracks remote branch jh/mtree, then according to normal logic it follows that also jh tracks master.
It does, but requires a bit more work. Git doesn't do recursive pull's (automatically).
You'd first have to pull master in jh/mtree, push that out to origin, and then pull that into local jh.
The --track option really doesn't do anything more than setting a default, it does not imply automatic behavior in any way.