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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: branch --set-upstream considered harmful
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 13:10:07 +0800
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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> Say I have an existing branch and it doesn't have a tracking config.
> (My local users often just do "checkout -b topic" instead of "checkou=
t
> -b topic origin/master".)
>
> I would naively expect this to work, while on that branch:
>
> =A0(topic)$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master

Hmm, I can see where the confusion is coming from - you're treating
git-branch as a "branch modifier", when it really is a "branch
creator" - unless you use -f, of course.

> [snip]
> So here's how I'm thinking about fixing it, but maybe I'm just making
> it even more confusing. What say you:
>
> =A0(topic)$ git branch --set-upstream=3Dorigin/master
> =A0Branch topic set up to track remote branch master from origin.

I was under the impression that long-style options took "=3D".

--=20
Cheers,
Ray Chuan