From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:43:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: make sure the upstream remote is configured
Message-ID: <20130726184311.GA29799@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1374860377-17652-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

> A command of e.g.
> 
>     git push --set-upstream /tmp/t master
> 
> will call install_branch_config() with a remote name of "/tmp/t". This
> function will set the 'branch.master.remote' key to, which is
> nonsensical as there is no remote by that name.

Is it nonsensical? It does not make sense for the @{upstream} magic
token, because we will not have a branch in tracking branch refs/remotes
to point to. But the configuration would still affect how "git pull"
chooses a branch to fetch and merge.

I.e., you can currently do:

  git push --set-upstream /tmp/t master
  git pull ;# pulls from /tmp/t master

-Peff