Re: branch --set-upstream considered harmful

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 7, 2010, 05:10 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikUkkWQl7cYuPiKGaJFYL_JlIGFCXXf7En8t0FN@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiln_xxnF-e33YA7kkfbBBcBMd40xag8JTW0eqws@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Say I have an existing branch and it doesn't have a tracking config.
> (My local users often just do "checkout -b topic" instead of "checkout
> -b topic origin/master".)
>
> I would naively expect this to work, while on that branch:
>
>  (topic)$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master

Hmm, I can see where the confusion is coming from - you're treating git-branch as a "branch modifier", when it really is a "branch creator" - unless you use -f, of course.

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> [snip]
> So here's how I'm thinking about fixing it, but maybe I'm just making
> it even more confusing. What say you:
>
>  (topic)$ git branch --set-upstream=origin/master
>  Branch topic set up to track remote branch master from origin.

I was under the impression that long-style options took "=".

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan