Re: [PATCH] Add `-u` short option for `git pull`

From: Julien Jerphanion <git@jjerphan.xyz>
Date: Sep 18, 2025, 07:42 UTC
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-------- Original Message -------- On 9/18/25 02:32, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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>  Julien Jerphanion <git@jjerphan.xyz> writes:
>  
>  [jc: line-wrapped an overly long single line]
>  
>  > Having this shortcut would be really useful for some use cases
>  > where one needs to pull locally branches from forks before
>  > updating them and pushing them again on the fork instead than on
>  > the upstream project (typical use case for conda-forge's
>  > feedstocks).
>  
>  Sorry, do you mean that you stay on a single branch, and then you
>  would pull from one place with "git pull -u" followed by "git push"
>  to push back there, and repeat that for other places, practically
>  redefining the meaning of the "upstream" to "the last remote
>  repository I pulled from and I am supposed to push to that remote
>  and nowhere else in my workflow"?
>  
>

More or less, I was referring to the official repository in such workflows as `upstream`.

I would also sporadically fetch and pull from `upstream`, but I would not set local branches to tracks remote branches there.

As a user, I find that having `-u` usable for the `pull` command would be consistent and expected given that it is present for other commands already.

Thank you for spending time considering this addition.