From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:29:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: make --set-upstream saner without an explicit starting point
Message-ID: <7vpq89ny8q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1341559103.10752.59.camel@flaca.cmartin.tk>

Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:

> Yep, this seems good. Now that you mention the <name> existing, I wonder
> if letting --set-upstream create the branch as well wasn't another bad
> decision, as the name suggests it's for setting that information after
> the branch has already been created.

You should be able to correct that for --set-upstream-to=<upstream>.
It is clearly about setting upstream for an existing branch, right?