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

knittl venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 10:25:

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Miles Bader venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 08:24:

quoted

Hmm, on a related note, is there an obvious way to _show_ the current
branch's upstream...?

[I mean, which just prints out "origin/master" or whatever...]

Thanks,

-miles

git for-each-ref --format="%(upstream)" $(git symbolic-ref HEAD)

I can't come up with a better way of expanding @{u} without resolving
the resulting refname to a SHA1. You could do

what about

    git branch -vv

it will show all local branches with their upstream plus behind/ahead numbers

That's a very nice and useful output, but my impression was that Miles
was more interested in one branch (the current one), and I think Jay
gave the most direct solution. While it does go through the
resolve-describe-circle (compared to for-each-ref) it should still be
efficient.

Michael