Re: change remote to track new branch

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Daniel Convissor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 09:14:59AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

>> Use "git remote set-branches" to change the tracked branches of a
>> remote.  Use "git branch --set-upstream-to" to change the upstream of a
>> branch (or create a new branch from the new upstream).
>
> Thanks.  Those commands were introduced in 1.8.  Is there a way to do it
> in 1.7, please?

"git remote set-branches" was introduced by v1.7.8-rc2~4^2~1.  Are you
stuck on 1.7.2.5, perhaps?  In older (and current) versions of git,
you can control the list of branches tracked by a remote by modifying
its "fetch" refspec in .git/config:

	[remote "origin"]
		url = ...
		fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
		fetch = +refs/heads/next:refs/remotes/origin/next

"git branch --set-upstream-to" is from v1.8.0-rc0~50^2~4.  In older
versions of git,

	git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master

was spelled as

	git branch --set-upstream master origin/master

or the branch's upstream can be set directly in .git/config by
modifying the "remote" and "merge" values in the [branch "foo"]
paragraph.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan