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authorJohan Herland <johan@herland.net>2011-02-16 01:54:24 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-02-16 10:21:52 -0800
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push.default: Rename 'tracking' to 'upstream'
Users are sometimes confused with two different types of "tracking" behavior in Git: "remote-tracking" branches (e.g. refs/remotes/*/*) versus the merge/rebase relationship between a local branch and its @{upstream} (controlled by branch.foo.remote and branch.foo.merge config settings). When the push.default is set to 'tracking', it specifies that a branch should be pushed to its @{upstream} branch. In other words, setting push.default to 'tracking' applies only to the latter of the above two types of "tracking" behavior. In order to make this more understandable to the user, we rename the push.default == 'tracking' option to push.default == 'upstream'. push.default == 'tracking' is left as a deprecated synonym for 'upstream'. Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -1591,7 +1591,8 @@ push.default::
* `matching` - push all matching branches.
All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be
matching. This is the default.
-* `tracking` - push the current branch to its upstream branch.
+* `upstream` - push the current branch to its upstream branch.
+* `tracking` - deprecated synonym for `upstream`.
* `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
rebase.stat::