From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:32:33 GMT
Subject: Re: How can git pull be up-to-date and git push fail?
Message-ID: <20070407213233.GA23234@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7l3c1uz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Yes, that is exactly why I suggested "git push" without explicit
> refspecs to drive the plumbings to push only matching branches.
> So if you are worried about breaking backward compatibility for
> real men (iow people who use git-send-pack directly), it would
> be a less impact change to (1) add --matching-heads option to
> send-pack and perhaps http-push, and change their behaviour only
> in that case, and (2) pass that option when git-push did not get
> explicit refspecs to send from the user, either from the command
> line nor from the config.

Ah, I (obviously) didn't pick that up from your original message. Let me
rework my patch and see if I can get something more reasonable.

-Peff