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Re: [PATCH v3] Add push --set-upstream

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 16, 2010, 18:28 UTC
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<20100116182829.GA27474@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:13:20AM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Ilari Liusvaara
> <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
> > Hmm... In what conditions ref->status is 'none' after push operation
> > has completed?
> 
> when a match between a local and remote ref is not found.
> 
> For example, the local ref 'master' will match the remote ref
> 'master', but not 'retsam' ('master' spelled in reverse).

How would it make any sense to set up a tracking branch, then? Not only is it not desired (if I said "git push -u foo:bar", I don't expect it to do _anything_ with some other local branch besides foo), but it wouldn't work, since the peer_ref pointer would be NULL.

-Peff
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Message 8 of 11 in “Add push --set-upstream”
  1. Add push --set-upstreamIlari Liusvaara, Jan 16, 2010
  2. Tay Ray ChuanJan 16, 2010
  3. Ilari LiusvaaraJan 16, 2010
  4. Tay Ray ChuanJan 16, 2010
  5. Ilari LiusvaaraJan 16, 2010
  6. Tay Ray ChuanJan 16, 2010
  7. Tay Ray ChuanJan 16, 2010
  8. Jeff KingJan 16, 2010
  9. Tay Ray ChuanJan 16, 2010
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2010
  11. Tay Ray ChuanJan 16, 2010

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