As it has been discussed before, our support for triangular workflows is lacking, and the following patch series aims to improve that situation. We have the concept of upstream branch (e.g. 'origin/master') which is to where our topic branches eventually should be merged to, so it makes sense that 'git rebase' uses that as the destination, but most people would not push to such upstream branch, they would push to a publish branch (e.g. 'github/feature-a'). We could set our upstream to the place we push, and 'git push' would be able to use that as default, and 'git branch --vv' would show how ahead/behind we are in comparisson to that branch, but then 'git rebase' (or 'git merge') would be using the wrong branch. This patch series adds: 1) git push --set-publish 2) git branch --set-publish 3) git branch -vv # uses and shows the publish branch when configured After this, it becomes much easier to track branches in a triangular workflow. master e230c56 [origin/master, gh/master] Git 1.8.4 * fc/publish 0a105fd [master, gh/fc/publish: ahead 1] branch: display publish branch fc/branch/fast 177dcad [master, gh/fc/branch/fast] branch: reorganize verbose options fc/trivial f289b9a [master: ahead 7] branch: trivial style fix fc/leaks d101af4 [master: ahead 2] read-cache: plug a possible leak stable e230c56 Git 1.8.4 Felipe Contreras (8): branch: trivial cleanup branch: reorganize verbose options push: trivial reorganization Add concept of 'publish' branch branch: allow configuring the publish branch t: branch add publish branch tests push: add --set-publish option branch: display publish branch Documentation/git-branch.txt | 11 +++++ Documentation/git-push.txt | 9 +++- branch.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++ branch.h | 2 + builtin/branch.c | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ builtin/push.c | 52 +++++++++++++-------- remote.c | 34 +++++++++++--- remote.h | 4 ++ t/t3200-branch.sh | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ t/t5529-push-publish.sh | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ t/t6040-tracking-info.sh | 8 ++-- transport.c | 28 +++++++---- transport.h | 1 + 13 files changed, 393 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t5529-push-publish.sh -- 1.8.4-fc -- 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