Pushing new branches does not set up tracking branch completely

When you push a local branch that does not exist on the remote (using the refspec overload), libgit2sharp automatically creates a tracking branch, but it does not set up the config for the local branch

i.e. the following config entries are missing:

branch.(branch_name).remote
branch.(branch_name).merge

Currently, I push a new branch like as follows:

string refspec = string.Format("{0}:{1}",
    currentBranch.CanonicalName, currentBranch.CanonicalName);
repo.Network.Push(remote, refspec, handler, credentials);
repo.Branches.Update(repo.Head, delegate(BranchUpdater updater)
{
    updater.Remote = remote.Name;
    updater.UpstreamBranch = repo.Head.CanonicalName;
});

I feel like this should be simplified. Either by doing the BranchUpdater stuff in Push(), or by extending the Push(Branch, ...) overload to let it accept non-tracking branches and do the whole process.

I also did not find a test fixture covering that feature, so the intended behaviour should at least be specified.

[Lapeno94]

Hey @wilkovanderveen,

There is a workaround how to solve this.

`

       var pushOptions = new PushOptions
        {
            CredentialsProvider = (_, _, _) =>
                new UsernamePasswordCredentials()
                {
                    Username = yourUsername,
                    Password =yourPassword
                }
        };
        
       // branch -> your local branch which are you working on name: feature/foo/bar
       // trackedBranchName -> refs/remotes/origin/feature/foo/bar
       
        repository.Network.Push(repository.Network.Remotes["origin"], branch.CanonicalName, trackedBranchName, 
            pushOptions);
            
       // update branch references
        repository.Branches.Update(repository.Head, updater =>
        {
            updater.Remote = repository.Network.Remotes["origin"].Name;
            updater.UpstreamBranch = repository.Head.CanonicalName;
        });
        // push to the server
        repository.Network.Push(repository.Branches[branchName], pushOptions);`

[wilkovanderveen]

I know this topic is from 9 years ago. But is this fixed?