On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > IOW, I don't think > >> Â (master)$ git branch --set-upstream origin/master >> Â Branch origin/master set up to track local branch master. > > is a sane behaviour from day one, and is simply a bug. ÂChanging this > behaviour would merely be a bugfix, not a flag-day event that changes an > established behaviour. Okay, our emails criss-crossed. I agree with that, but my other email proposes adding -u <name> with correct behavior and just deprecating --set-upstream. I suppose we could instead (or in addition) just fix --set-upstream. I guess please reply to the other email so we don't keep criss-crossing. :-) j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html