On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:05:04PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I don't recall us ever doing anything after that. I don't have a problem > > with making it work, of course, but I am not sure if it is really a bug. > > Once people get used to us being extra nice in some places, other > less nice places start looking more and more like bugs. It is an > unfortunate fact of life, but fixing them up is a good thing for > users. As long as we can make those less nice places nicer > uniformly without bending backwards or introducing unnecessary > ambiguities, that is, and I think this one can be done without > such downsides. Oh, absolutely, and I do not think we are breaking anything to start handling it better (my "I don't have a problem..." above). But I guess I am doubting that people are actually doing this at all now. I'd expect most people to have the config set automatically by "branch" or "checkout", or to use "branch --set-upstream-to". Did your report come out of a real case, or was it just something you noticed? -Peff -- 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