Please explain how git solves the current problem?

[maximveksler]

Please update README with a section explaining how recent git versions solved this problem

[aanand]

Basically, since Git 2.0, git push with no arguments only pushes the current branch (specifically: the default value for push.default changed from matching to simple). This means it doesn't matter if your other branches are out of date.

I've clarified the paragraph a bit.

[maximveksler]

Thank you.

I believe it would also be valuable to explain how pull changed from merge to rebase ?

[aanand]

I don't believe it did.

[maximveksler]

ok, well in that case your software right still be useful. in my use case git pull does rebase for me, compared to say 4 years ago when I was heavy user of git up that did pull, stash, rebase for me, which is why I needed this tool in the first place..

[aanand]

Here's a one-liner that'll get you a git up that fetches, stashes, rebases and unstashes on just the current branch:

git config --global alias.up '!git fetch && git rebase --autostash FETCH_HEAD'

I've added it to the README.

[mauricioklein]

@aanand is there an option to use the git alias above to update all local branches with the remote?

This is, for me, the most useful feature in git-up, so, since the gem isn't going to be maintained anymore, I'm searching for a workaround...

Thanks in advance for the great job done so far!

[aanand]

@mauricioklein I don't have a good solution for that, I'm afraid. The only reason I considered it necessary in the first place was because of the default git push behaviour at the time. Now that that's changed, it doesn't seem that a lot of people need to update all local branches.

[mauricioklein]

I understand.
Alright, thanks for the quick explanation.
Cheers o/

[despairblue]

The alias works for me only on master. If I'm on some other branch it starts to rebase from some other branch, e.g.:

I'm on branch that is 1 day or 10 commits ahead of master.
Master has one new commit.
The branch's remote and my local copy are up to date.
I issue git up
Git fetches all branchen.
Git starts to rebase my branch on top of some the branch that comes alphabetically first.

In my case it started rebasing on a stale branch called addresses from January.

The alias does not really to what it's supposed to 😕

[aanand]

@despairblue Does this work?

$ git config --global alias.up '!git fetch && git rebase --autostash $(git for-each-ref --format "%(upstream:short)" $(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD))'

[despairblue]

@aanand that does work! Thanks 🙇

[harlantwood]

Thanks @aanand for the great project when it was needed, and the alias updates now.

[aanand]

PSA: as of Git 2.9, you can just do this:

git config --global alias.up 'pull --rebase --autostash'