Currently, the instructions for a new project mimic that of GitHub:

push origin master

That's actually wrong. I do not know of any use case where you don't really mean:

push --set-upstream origin master

or the shorter version:

push -u origin master

Not setting the upstream just makes pushing later harder. Let's update the docs to have people set upstream by default so fewer weird things happen to them later.

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damien tournoud commented

--set-upstream appeared only in Git 1.7.0.9.

I'm not sure if there is an alternative other then editing the .git file manually in previous Git versions.

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eliza411 commented
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I'll definitely update documentation about this, but I'm not sure about the instructions as the command is so new.

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eliza411 commented

Marking this duplicate in favor of #1081308: Include "-u" option in new branch instructions

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eliza411 commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Marking duplicate