Why doesn't "git flow feature pull" track?

Question

Lets say I've created a new feature with git flow feature start FEATURENAME

then published it with git flow feature publish FEATURENAME

Now my colleague wants to collaborate on this feature with me, so he does

git flow feature pull FEATURENAME

This creates a new branch on his local repo, based on the feature branch in the remote repo. This does not however set his local feature branch to track the remote feature branch, so now he has to track this branch manually.

What is the reasoning behind this extra step? Why not have the feature pull command set to track as well?

What's the workflow difference between git flow feature pull and git flow feature track.

In which cases would you use each of those?

Answer 1

Sounds like you are using git flow feature pull, where you should be using git flow feature track, since that does create a local branch that tracks the remote.

I can't really think of why I'd ever use git flow feature pull. It creates a local branch with no tracking set up on it, and I don't know why that would be useful! It's also badly named, since a pull should involve a merge, and this does not.