From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:46:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [WIP/RFC] add git pull and git fetch --set-upstream
Message-ID: <xmqqwojqeh6b.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <86h8av7ian.fsf@univ-lyon1.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@univ-lyon1.fr> writes:

> -u::
> --set-upstream::
> 	For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add
> 	upstream (tracking) reference, used by argument-less
> 	linkgit:git-pull[1] and other commands. For more information,
> 	see `branch.<name>.merge` in linkgit:git-config[1].
>
> Probably the reasoning was to make a symmetry between "git push
> --set-upstream", which mentions "pull" in the doc, and the new "git pull
> --set-upstream". However, I do not think there should be such symmetry:

Yeah, if "git push --set-upstream" affects the settings that is used
by "git pull", then the above description is good.  Does this new
"git pull --set-upstream" affect the settings used by "git push"?  I
somehow did not think so.  It records the remote and branch used by
this particular "git pull" invocation in branch.<name>.{remote,merge}
for use by future uses of "git pull", right?