Re: [PATCH v3] Add push --set-upstream

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2010, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1001161039l7daf32f8v68e5ba4b03c3e2b3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100116182829.GA27474@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:13:20AM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Ilari Liusvaara
>> <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> wrote:
>> > Hmm... In what conditions ref->status is 'none' after push operation
>> > has completed?
>>
>> when a match between a local and remote ref is not found.
>>
>> For example, the local ref 'master' will match the remote ref
>> 'master', but not 'retsam' ('master' spelled in reverse).
>
> How would it make any sense to set up a tracking branch, then? Not only
> is it not desired (if I said "git push -u foo:bar", I don't expect it to
> do _anything_ with some other local branch besides foo), but it wouldn't
> work, since the peer_ref pointer would be NULL.

Noted.

Ilari, please ignore my thought on 'none' then.

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan