On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> John Szakmeister wrote:
>
>> I think in a
>> typical, feature branch-based workflow @{u} would be nearly useless.
>
> I thought the idea of @{u} was that it represents which ref one
> typically wants to compare the current branch to. It is used by
> 'git branch -v' to show how far ahead or behind a branch is and
> used by 'git pull --rebase' to forward-port a branch, for example.
>
> So a topic branch with @{u} pointing to 'master' or 'origin/master'
> seems pretty normal and hopefully the shortcuts it allows can make
> life more convenient.
Is there an outline of this git workflow in the documentation
somewhere? Do you save your work in a forked repo anywhere? If so,
how do you typically save your work. I typically have my @{u}
pointing to where I save my work. Perhaps I'm missing something
important here, but I don't feel like the current command set and
typical workflow (at least those in tutorials) leads you in that
direction.
Here is one example:
<https://www.atlassian.com/git/workflows#!workflow-feature-branch>
> It is *not* primarily about where the branch gets pushed. After all,
> in both the 'matching' and the 'simple' mode, "git push" does not push
> the current branch to its upstream @{u} unless @{u} happens to have
> the same name.
Then where does it get pushed? Do you always specify where to save your work?
FWIW, I think the idea of treating @{u} as the eventual recipient of
your changes is good, but then it seems like Git is lacking the
"publish my changes to this other branch" concept.
Am I missing something? If there is something other than @{u} to
represent this latter concept, I think `git push` should default to
that instead. But, at least with my current knowledge, that doesn't
exist--without explicitly saying so--or treating @{u} as that branch.
If there's a better way to do this, I'd love to hear it!
Thanks!
-John
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