[RFC PATCH 0/1] making --set-upstream have default arguments

[Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>]

To track a upstream branch from a local branch we need to pass
<repository> and <refspec> to --set-upstream (in case of git push)
or to --set-upstream-to (in case of git branch). In most cases,
users track the upstream branch with the same name as the local
branch they are currently on. For example, users most of the time
do 'git push <repository> <current_branch_refspec>'.

So, it would be great if 'git push -u' by default do this. This
patch series address this. The patches of this patch-set set
some default values for <repository> and <refspec> if they are
not given. It first tries to get the value of <repository> from
'branch.<current_branch>.remote'. If not then it will set the
value of <repository> as 'origin'. <refspec>'s value would be
the short name of the current branch.

The first patch implements it for push command. However, before
moving to the 'git branch' part, it would be great to have
discussions about the proposed changes in this patch and whether
the current changes are the best way to address it or not.

Abhradeep Chakraborty (1):
  push: make '-u' have default arguments

 Documentation/git-push.txt |  6 +++++
 builtin/push.c             | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 t/t5523-push-upstream.sh   | 11 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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