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Bug 345504

Summary:	Can't change pull strategy of an existing branch
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	James Blackburn <jamesblackburn+eclipse>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	cdtdoug, eclipse.org, malaperle, overholt, robin, t-oberlies
Version:	1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description James Blackburn

2011-05-11 17:31:23 EDT

It seems that you can't change the pull strategy (http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Branch_Creation_Dialog)
 of an existing branch (e.g. master), nor can you configure it during a repo. clone using the File > Import wizard.

Comment 1 Andrew Overholt

2011-05-20 09:52:13 EDT

I've also noticed that you can't enter branch names with '.' characters in them as the properties dialogue is trying to enforce things such as "branch.<branchname>.<property>".

Comment 2 Tobias Oberlies

2011-07-29 11:04:28 EDT

There seems to be a general lack of properties dialogs for the different objects in the Git Repositories view. 
The properties view doesn't help if you don't happen to know the key - and it doesn't even show anything for branches.

Comment 3 Robin Stocker

2013-05-20 14:14:28 EDT

This is possible since 2.0, you can right click on a branch in the Git
Repositories view and select Configure Branch...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371166 ***