From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:18:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] Change branch --set-uptream to take an argument
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=qn-Jf32iOHsaFwwcwp4_UWxcwG+t1VepO0FrC@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <buohbcn3wp5.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
> BTW, you're just talking about "git branch", right?
>
> ['cause the way "--set-upstream" works with "git push" is perfect, and
> shouldn't be changed...]

I was talking about git-branch and git-checkout. I didn't realize
git-push even had --set-upstream. Interestingly, -u is an alias for
--set-upstream with git-push, but not with git-branch.

j.