Re: Using the --track option when creating a branch

Andreas> This particular bikeshed was painted a long time ago, with Andreas> the consensus going in favour of "git push" pushing all Andreas> *matching* refspecs.

I still don't understand why this is useful, especially when git push already has a "--all" option.

I know that I've never had the intent to push all the refs without thinking about it first. Most of the time, I intend to push only the current branch I am in.

The current behaviour made me remove the branches I was not actively on locally, because I would get errors from "git push" all the time saying that I was not up-to-date in those branches.

Note that the "git pull" issue is completely different, as it merges or fast forwards the current branch only.

  Sam