Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] branch --set-upstream-to error-message improvements

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 01:51:13PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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Things slowly improve as people make suggestions. I think the thing that
might have helped here is better advice when "set-upstream-to" is
pointed to a ref that does not exist.

Patches coming in a minute.

Or 60 minutes. :)

I'm not decided on whether the last patch is overkill or not (or even if
it is not, whether it may end up confusing people who do not fit into
one of the slots it suggests).

Yeah, I am uneasy about 5/5 for the same reason.  
Also I feel a bit uneasy about 1/5 as well.

quoted

If the user requests to --set-upstream-to a branch that does
not exist, then either:

  1. It was a typo.

  2. They thought the branch should exist.

Could there be the third?

    3. She planned to create a branch after setting the
       configuration.

I think it is remote (no pun intended) possibility, and I may be
worried about people's existing workflow too much (as usual).