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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Carlos Martín Nieto" <cmn@elego.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] branch: make sure the upstream remote is configured
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:43:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130726184311.GA29799@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374860377-17652-1-git-send-email-cmn@elego.de>

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

> A command of e.g.
> 
>     git push --set-upstream /tmp/t master
> 
> will call install_branch_config() with a remote name of "/tmp/t". This
> function will set the 'branch.master.remote' key to, which is
> nonsensical as there is no remote by that name.

Is it nonsensical? It does not make sense for the @{upstream} magic
token, because we will not have a branch in tracking branch refs/remotes
to point to. But the configuration would still affect how "git pull"
chooses a branch to fetch and merge.

I.e., you can currently do:

  git push --set-upstream /tmp/t master
  git pull ;# pulls from /tmp/t master

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-26 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 17:39 [PATCH] branch: make sure the upstream remote is configured Carlos Martín Nieto
2013-07-26 18:43 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-07-26 18:48   ` Jeff King
2013-07-26 22:29   ` Carlos Martín Nieto
2013-07-26 23:12     ` Jeff King
2013-07-26 23:22       ` Jeff King

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