From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:28:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add push --set-upstream
Message-ID: <20100116182829.GA27474@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <be6fef0d1001160813o674ed93dn33843813be6f45be@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:13:20AM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:

> 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