From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:19:08 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --set-upstream regression in master
Message-ID: <CAG+J_DwtkVws_kDbpb2HDW56BCdixa=DtnZ-uXei=URCkFq1=w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy5xocafg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This used to be possible on the checked out branch:
>>
>>   $ git branch --set-upstream origin/master master
>>
>> Now it gives "fatal: Cannot force update the current branch."
>> broken.
>
> Let's do this. I would be happy if I can include it in -rc2 with Tested-by:
> or something ;-)

Tested-by: Jay Soffian

Thanks for the quick turnaround. I'll try to find some time to make
--set-upstream a proper option for post 1.7.7.

j.