From: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:03:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: make --set-upstream saner without an explicit starting point
Message-ID: <1341561809.10752.61.camel@flaca.cmartin.tk>
In-Reply-To: <7vpq89ny8q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 00:29 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> 
> > Yep, this seems good. Now that you mention the <name> existing, I wonder
> > if letting --set-upstream create the branch as well wasn't another bad
> > decision, as the name suggests it's for setting that information after
> > the branch has already been created.
> 
> You should be able to correct that for --set-upstream-to=<upstream>.
> It is clearly about setting upstream for an existing branch, right?

Yeah, it's for changing the tracking information and should refuse to do
so if the branch doesn't exist yet.

   cmn