On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:40, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Joe Abbate <jma@freedomcircle.com> writes:
>> No, it doesn't trash anything. The branch is just an additional
>> "pointer" to 'master' (at that point in time). I recommend taking a
>> look at this:
>
>> http://progit.org/book/ch3-5.html
>
> Yes, I was reading exactly that before posting. It talks about pushing
> a branch you've created locally, and it talks about what happens when
> others pull that down, and it's about as clear as mud w/r/t how the
> original pusher sees the remote branch. What I want is to end up
> with my local branch tracking the remote branch in the same way as if
> I'd not been the branch creator. Preferably without having to do
> anything as ugly as delete the branch, or re-clone, or manually hack
> config files. This has got to be a use case that the git authors
> have heard of before...
I think you need the -u parameter to "git push". (Haven't tested, though)
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