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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp

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Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
Nov 3, 2008, 05:59 UTC
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On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 14:27 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >> +  * 'git push --matching' does what 'git push' does today (without
> >> +    explicit configuration)
> >
> > I think this is reasonable even without other changes, just to override
> > any configuration.
> 
> I don't.  Can't you say "git push $there HEAD" these days?  I vaguely
> recall that there is a way to configure push that way for people too lazy
> to type "origin HEAD" after "git push".

I don't think it's about laziness, it's more about making sure that without specifying behaviour, the action of the command is conservative. Pushing all matching refs is not conservative; it's "magic". And in my experience, people get bitten by it, because they think, "ok, time to push this branch", type "git push" and then a lot more than they expected gets pushed.

I can see that some people want this behaviour by default; but to me "push the current branch back to where it came from" seems like far more a rational default for at least 90% of users.

Sam.
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Message 10 of 25 in “Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp”
  1. Jeff KingOct 31, 2008
  2. Sam VilainOct 31, 2008
  3. Pierre HabouzitOct 31, 2008
  4. Jeff KingNov 2, 2008
  5. Theodore TsoNov 2, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2008
  7. Jeff KingNov 2, 2008
  8. Jeff KingNov 2, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2008
  10. Sam VilainNov 3, 2008
  11. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2008
  12. Sverre RabbelierNov 3, 2008
  13. Dmitry PotapovNov 4, 2008
  14. Sam VilainNov 4, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2008
  16. Jeff KingNov 5, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2008
  18. Dmitry PotapovNov 5, 2008
  19. Jeff KingNov 3, 2008
  20. Jeff KingNov 3, 2008
  21. Pierre HabouzitNov 3, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2008
  23. Pierre HabouzitNov 4, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2008
  25. Jeff KingNov 4, 2008

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