From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:27:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] Change branch --set-uptream to take an argument
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=gvVwh-H9FiGz6SQeJYwxmnnViYsDQX=RYRjb6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7hdj1mo7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> IOW, I don't think
>
>>   (master)$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master
>>   Branch origin/master set up to track local branch master.
>
> is a sane behaviour from day one, and is simply a bug.  Changing this
> behaviour would merely be a bugfix, not a flag-day event that changes an
> established behaviour.

Okay, our emails criss-crossed. I agree with that, but my other email
proposes adding -u <name> with correct behavior and just deprecating
--set-upstream. I suppose we could instead (or in addition) just fix
--set-upstream.

I guess please reply to the other email so we don't keep criss-crossing. :-)

j.