Re: [RFC PATCH] status: reword message for a missing upstream branch

From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2026, 18:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHwyqnUgWurC5Q9FjWv11YgMkw0i-j=h=Tvg2oi+bphbDTw9kg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20261009134004.188952-1-gitter.spiros@gmail.com>

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> Clone an empty repository, make a commit and run "git status":
>
>     $ git init --bare empty.git
>     $ git clone empty.git work && cd work
>     $ git commit --allow-empty -m initial
>     $ git status
>     On branch master
>     Your branch is based on 'origin/master', but the upstream is gone.
>       (use "git branch --unset-upstream" to fixup)
>
> The upstream is not gone, it was never there: the remote is empty,
> so origin/master has not been created yet.

The idea makes sense to me!

Harald