buildman: Try to guess the upstream commit
Buildman normally obtains the upstream commit by asking git. Provided that
the branch was created with 'git checkout -b <branch> <some_upstream>' then
this normally works.
When there is no upstream, we can try to guess one, by looking up through
the commits until we find a branch. Add a function to try this and print
a warning if buildman ends up relying on it.
Also update the documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
diff --git a/tools/buildman/README b/tools/buildman/README
index 0f8ea20..8e7a68c 100644
--- a/tools/buildman/README
+++ b/tools/buildman/README
@@ -310,8 +310,9 @@
$ ./tools/buildman/buildman -b <branch> -n
If it can't detect the upstream branch, try checking out the branch, and
-doing something like 'git branch --set-upstream <branch> upstream/master'
-or something similar.
+doing something like 'git branch --set-upstream-to upstream/master'
+or something similar. Buildman will try to guess a suitable upstream branch
+if it can't find one (you will see a message like" Guessing upstream as ...).
As an example: