Re: set-upstream for existing branch...?

[Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>]

knittl venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 10:25:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Miles Bader venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 08:24:
>>> Hmm, on a related note, is there an obvious way to _show_ the current
>>> branch's upstream...?
>>>
>>> [I mean, which just prints out "origin/master" or whatever...]
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -miles
>>>
>>
>> git for-each-ref --format="%(upstream)" $(git symbolic-ref HEAD)
>>
>> I can't come up with a better way of expanding @{u} without resolving
>> the resulting refname to a SHA1. You could do
> 
> what about
> 
>     git branch -vv
> 
> it will show all local branches with their upstream plus behind/ahead numbers

That's a very nice and useful output, but my impression was that Miles
was more interested in one branch (the current one), and I think Jay
gave the most direct solution. While it does go through the
resolve-describe-circle (compared to for-each-ref) it should still be
efficient.

Michael