From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:02:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1331281886-11667-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> <1331288715.21444.38.camel@beez.lab.cmartin.tk> <4F5A4C45.7070406@xiplink.com> <4F5AF1A8.4050604@alum.mit.edu> <4F5E12A5.6030701@xiplink.com> <20120312183725.GA2187@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vehswljxi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4F5F60C5.6020900@ira.uka.de> <7v7gyoxuth.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4F60EE4B.9020803@ira.uka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Marc Branchaud , Michael Haggerty , Carlos =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Nieto , git@vger.kernel.org To: Holger Hellmuth X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 15 09:03:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S85eZ-0003Vv-Ef for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:03:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759532Ab2COIDO (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:03:14 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:60528 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759218Ab2COIDG (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:03:06 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q2F7wODu014259 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:58:24 +0100 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S85dn-0008Dk-Sj; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:02:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4F60EE4B.9020803@ira.uka.de> (Holger Hellmuth's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:15:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:58:25 +0100 (CET) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q2F7wODu014259 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1332403107.0657@F9mgdnvukryWw8kBwPbpDw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Holger Hellmuth writes: > So today I tried to create a > bidirectional link between a local and a remote branch using only > porcelain commands (i.e. without using git config directly). Somehow I > didn't succeed. I can either use git checkout --track or git push -u > to make a pull connection between the two, but to automatically push I > would have to create a branch of the same name (and know that this is > the magical ingredient that makes it work!) In this particular case, having 'push.default=upstream' would have done it for you: your "push -u" would have set up the upstream, and the next "push" would have followed it. (or you could "git push remote local-branch:remote-branch") -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/