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

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Is there a convenient, intuitive, way to set (or change) @{upstream} for
>> the current branch, without doing anything else...?
>
> $ git branch <current_branch> --set-upstream <new_upstream>
>
> But note that this is deceptive: what's important is the relative
> positions of <current_branch> and <new_upstream> on the command-line,
> and they must be in that order. It doesn't (currently) matter where
> you place the --set-upstream.
>
> I've got it on my todo list to make --set-upstream take <new_upstream>
> as its argument so that you can just say:
>
> $ git branch --set-upstream <new_upstream>

Thanks, the latter sounds nice, but for now the former is good for an alias...

-miles

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