repo should make it easy to make a branch "ready for upload"

Reported by Dave Bort <dbort@android.com> on Mon Feb 09 10:36:52 PST 2009
Source: JIRA REPO-4

I've got a commit [in the repo development repository], and git diff m/
default.. shows the deltas I'm expecting, but "repo upload" just gives me "no
branches ready for upload".

$ git branch
* master

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I'll bet its because .git/config doesn't have any remote or merge entries
listed for the branch, because you didn't create it with --track.

Make a new branch and merge your master branch into it:

 $ git branch --track for-upload m/default
 $ git checkout for-upload
 $ git merge master
 $ repo upload

This is why we have repo start (more or less), its shorter than git branch --
track.

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Repo should provide a way to make a branch "ready for upload", and the "no
branches ready for upload" message should tell the user how to use the new
feature to recover from that state.

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I was thinking that

repo start <branch> <sha1>

could do the repo start, and then the git reset --hard <sha1>.

It might also be nice to have a -p option (or some other way) of having it do
that on just one project.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by code-rev...@gtempaccount.com on 24 Sep 2009 at 9:09

petemoore / git-repo

repo should make it easy to make a branch "ready for upload" #4