From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
"Matthieu Moy" <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] branch: introduce --set-upstream-to
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:09:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120710210901.GI8439@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vsjczgx3h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>> The immediate problem that seems to trip people up is that it is very
>> tempting to run
>>
>> git branch --set-upstream junio/master
>
> I think we have discussed this already a few days ago. See my
> comment in the earlier thread before this round.
You wrote[*]:
| I think it was a mistake that nobody noticed that it is likely that
| the operation most often will be done for the current branch and the
| usual "give me one branch name to operate on, or I'll operate on the
| current branch" command line convention of "git branch" commannd is
| not a good fit for it, when "set upstream" feature was added
with which I completely agree. You then moved on to
| and
[someone should have]
| suggested an alternative syntax that avoids the mistake you quoted
| above, perhaps something like:
|
| git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master [HEAD]
with which I disagree.
As far as I can tell, nobody really thought very hard about what
--set-upstream would do when passed only one argument. It should have
been made to error out and only later change if someone had an idea
about how to make it useful.
Luckily we have a way out. Any example transition plan looks like
the following.
DAY 1.
$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master
Branch origin/master set up to track local branch debian-sid.
hint: If you intended to make the current branch track
hint: origin/master, you can recover with the following commands:
hint: $ git branch -d origin/master
hint: $ git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
$
DAY 2.
$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master
Branch origin/master set up to track local branch debian-sid.
warning: using --set-upstream when creating a new branch is deprecated
hint: use --track instead
hint:
hint: If you intended to make the current branch track
hint: origin/master, you can recover with the following commands:
hint: $ git branch -d origin/master
hint: $ git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
$
DAY 3.
$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master
fatal: no such branch "origin/master"
$
DAY 4.
$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master
usage: git branch --set-upstream <branchname> <upstream>
$
[*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201040/focus=201051
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-10 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-10 16:52 [PATCH 0/3] A better way of handling upstream information in git-branch Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-10 16:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] branch: introduce --set-upstream-to Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-10 17:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-07-10 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-10 19:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-10 19:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-10 20:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-10 20:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-10 21:09 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-07-10 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-10 23:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-11 1:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-11 1:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-12 8:41 ` Miles Bader
2012-07-12 16:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-10 16:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] branch: suggest how to undo a --set-upstream when given one branch Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-10 17:20 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-07-11 13:50 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-10 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-11 14:24 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-10 19:24 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-10 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-10 23:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-11 15:14 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-10 16:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] branch: add --unset-upstream option Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-10 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-11 14:14 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-07-11 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-12 10:27 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-20 13:47 [PATCH 0/3] Improve branch UI for setting upstream information Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-20 13:47 ` [PATCH 1/3] branch: introduce --set-upstream-to Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-30 17:23 [PATCHv2 0/3] Improve branch UI for setting upstream information Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-30 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] branch: introduce --set-upstream-to Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-30 17:51 ` Ralf Thielow
2012-08-31 15:22 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2012-08-31 15:30 ` Ralf Thielow
2012-08-31 17:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-09-01 15:13 ` Carlos Martín Nieto
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