From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:37:16 GMT
Subject: Re: branch --set-upstream considered harmful
Message-ID: <201006070837.16713.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTildT6TRd0sPlv1QbCLO7oOPHM-L1yWNIdhdp0ex@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian wrote:
> 
> Git is inconsistent.
[...]
> $ git branch --set-upstream=origin/master
> $ git branch --set-upstream origin/master

Doesn't this just make it *more* confusing?

Either we document this, and the user will be left wondering why we
have two almost identical (and by the conventions of many other
programs, including git-send-email, *equivalent*) syntaxes doing,
well, something not quite entirely unlike the same.

Or we don't, and the user will eventually typo it and wonder WTF he
just did wrong.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch