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Re: [PATCH 2/3] branch: suggest how to undo a --set-upstream when given one branch

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Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Jul 11, 2012, 13:50 UTC
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On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 19:20 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
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> Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> 
> > --- a/builtin/branch.c
> > +++ b/builtin/branch.c
> > @@ -864,10 +864,32 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >  		   info and making sure new_upstream is correct */
> >  		create_branch(head, branch->name, new_upstream, 0, 0, 0, quiet, BRANCH_TRACK_OVERRIDE);
> >  	} else if (argc > 0 && argc <= 2) {
> > +		struct branch *branch = branch_get(argv[0]);
> > +		const char *old_upstream = NULL;
> > +		int branch_existed = 0;
> > +
> >  		if (kinds != REF_LOCAL_BRANCH)
> >  			die(_("-a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a branch name"));
> > +
> > +		/* Save what argv[0] was pointing to so we can give
> > +		   the --set-upstream-to hint */
> 
> Multi-line comments are usually written in Git as
> 
> /*
>  * multi-line
>  * comment
>  */
I've seen this style often, but sure.
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> 
> > +		if (branch_has_merge_config(branch))
> > +		  old_upstream = shorten_unambiguous_ref(branch->merge[0]->dst, 0);
> 
> Broken indentation.

Yeah, sorry. New laptop, hadn't got the default style fixed in the config.

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> 
> > +		if (argc == 1) {
> > +			printf("If you wanted to make '%s' track '%s', do this:\n", head, argv[0]);
> 
> Could be marked for translation with _("...").
Done.
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> 
> > +			if (branch_existed)
> > +				printf(" $ git branch --set-upstream '%s' '%s'\n", argv[0], old_upstream);
> 
> old_upstream may be NULL at this point. I guess you want to skip this
> line if old_upsteam is NULL.

We've just set up tracking for it, so we'd want to undo that. Which means --unset-upstream would have to move earlier in the series so we can suggest that.

> 
> The fact that I could find this bug suggests that this lacks a few new
> tests too ;-).
Indeed :) the next round will have them.
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> 
> > +			else
> > +				printf(" $ git branch -d '%s'\n", argv[0]);
> > +
> > +			printf(" $ git branch --set-upstream-to '%s'\n", argv[0]);
> 
> For the 3 printf()s: we usually display commands without the "$", and
> separate them from text with a blank line. See for example what "git
> commit" says when you didn't provide authorship:

Yeah, I was going by what Junio wrote in his mail. We should probably have a double-LF as well, like in the message below.

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> 
> You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:
> 
>     git config --global user.name "Your Name"
>     git config --global user.email you@example.com
> 
> After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:
> 
>     git commit --amend --reset-author
> 
> (the absence of $ sign avoids the temptation to cut-and-paste it)
> 
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  1. 0/3 A better way of handling upstream information in git-branchCarlos Martín Nieto, Jul 10, 2012
  2. 1/3 branch: introduce --set-upstream-toCarlos Martín Nieto, Jul 10, 2012
  3. Matthieu MoyJul 10, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2012
  5. Jonathan NiederJul 10, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2012
  7. Jonathan NiederJul 10, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2012
  9. Jonathan NiederJul 10, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2012
  11. Jonathan NiederJul 10, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2012
  13. Jonathan NiederJul 11, 2012
  14. Miles BaderJul 12, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2012
  16. 2/3 branch: suggest how to undo a --set-upstream when given one branchCarlos Martín Nieto, Jul 10, 2012
  17. Matthieu MoyJul 10, 2012
  18. Carlos Martín NietoJul 11, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2012
  20. Carlos Martín NietoJul 11, 2012
  21. Jonathan NiederJul 10, 2012
  22. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2012
  23. Jonathan NiederJul 10, 2012
  24. Carlos Martín NietoJul 11, 2012
  25. 3/3 branch: add --unset-upstream optionCarlos Martín Nieto, Jul 10, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoJul 10, 2012
  27. Carlos Martín NietoJul 11, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoJul 11, 2012
  29. Carlos Martín NietoJul 12, 2012

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