Re: set-upstream for existing branch...?

Jay Soffian [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Miles Bader [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Is there a convenient, intuitive, way to set (or change) @{upstream} for
the current branch, without doing anything else...?

$ git branch <current_branch> --set-upstream <new_upstream>

But note that this is deceptive: what's important is the relative
positions of <current_branch> and <new_upstream> on the command-line,
and they must be in that order. It doesn't (currently) matter where
you place the --set-upstream.

I've got it on my todo list to make --set-upstream take <new_upstream>
as its argument so that you can just say:

$ git branch --set-upstream <new_upstream>

Thanks, the latter sounds nice, but for now the former is good for an alias...

-miles

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