From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:41:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] branch: introduce --set-upstream-to
Message-ID: <874npds75j.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzk77f602.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> is easier to understand, while I think
>
> 	git branch <branch> [<start>]
>         git branch --set-upstream-to=<upstream> [<branch>]

Isn't one problem with this that even if a "--set-upstream-to" option
exists, inevitably some [and I'm guessing, many] people will not be
aware of it (after all, nobody reads documentation more than they have
to), and will attempt to use "--set-upstream" with an argument
(that's the natural thing to do, after all) -- which may succeed with
weird results ...?

-miles

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