Re: [RFC] New kind of upstream branch: base branch

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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Kevin Bracey <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/05/2013 23:34, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>>   I think I'm using 'upstream' for something it was not intended to, and
>> I think the current 'upstream' behavior should be split into
>> 'upstream' and 'base'.
>>
> I found myself thinking the same thing. It's really convenient being able to
> set your topic branch's upstream to another local branch, so git rebase
> works without parameters. But then I can't use upstream to point to a remote
> version of that topic branch. I want my topic branch to know both that it's
> based on master (or origin/master), and that it's upstream is origin/topic.

If you are in your topic branch, what do you expect 'git pull' to do?
And what do you expect 'git push' to do?

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Felipe Contreras
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