From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:08:55 GMT
Subject: Re: set-upstream for existing branch...?
Message-ID: <AANLkTikqj8NjLwR647E1tHUuDO=OitUJ1dm5Fs7gtXXt@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <buoei77xmpc.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> Is there a convenient, intuitive, way to set (or change) @{upstream} for
> the current branch, without doing anything else...?

$ git branch <current_branch> --set-upstream <new_upstream>

But note that this is deceptive: what's important is the relative
positions of <current_branch> and <new_upstream> on the command-line,
and they must be in that order. It doesn't (currently) matter where
you place the --set-upstream.

I've got it on my todo list to make --set-upstream take <new_upstream>
as its argument so that you can just say:

$ git branch --set-upstream <new_upstream>

j.