Re: Default remote branch for local branch

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Apr 14, 2006, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20060414161627.GA27689@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200604021817.30222.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 06:17:29PM CEST, I got a letter where Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> said that...

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> > I would write the config like this:
> > 
> > [branch-upstream]
> > master = linus
> > ata-irq-pio = irq-pio
> > ata-pata = pata-drivers
> 
> That is not working, as said above. But with above syntax extension,
> with s/=/for/ it would be fine.

I'm sorry but I'm slow and I don't see it - why wouldn't this work? (Except that the key name is case insensitive, which isn't too big a deal IMHO.)

I for one think that the 'for'-syntax is insane - it's unreadable (your primary query is by far most likely to be "what's the upstream when on branch X", not "what branches is this upstream for"), would convolute the configuration file syntax unnecessarily and would possibly also complicate the git-repo-config interface. Pavel's syntax is much nicer.

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