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Re: Minor annoyance with git push

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 20, 2008, 14:03 UTC
Message-ID
<20080220140306.GA6928@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<7vzltwavf9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:23:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [long description of shared repository workflow]
> So perhaps we can have "remote.*.push" that says "current" in
> some way.  Tentatively let's say the syntax is like this:

I think everything you said here makes perfect sense; changing the push refspec to say "push the current" for a particular remote is much more sensible than an overall default. In fact, I half-expected this to just work without a patch, since "git push origin HEAD" already works. However, we don't treat command line refspecs and config refspecs the same way, which IMHO is a needless inconsistency. How about this:

diff --git a/builtin-push.c b/builtin-push.c
index 9f727c0..ca90150 100644
--- a/builtin-push.c
+++ b/builtin-push.c
@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ static int do_push(const char *repo, int flags)
 	if (!refspec
 		&& !(flags & TRANSPORT_PUSH_ALL)
 		&& remote->push_refspec_nr) {
-		refspec = remote->push_refspec;
-		refspec_nr = remote->push_refspec_nr;
+		set_refspecs(remote->push_refspec, remote->push_refspec_nr);
 	}
 	errs = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < remote->url_nr; i++) {

At which point this now works as you described:

  git config remote.origin.push HEAD

> I was hoping we can do without the "remote.*.push = HEAD" if we
> can detect the remote is a shared repository while talking to
> it, but I think it is a bit too much magic, because we cannot
> visualize what the pushing side and the receiving side  are
> negotiating.

How are you detecting that the remote is a shared repository? By the
core.sharedrepository config option? I use several shared repositories,
and I never set that variable; instead I use filesystem ACLs (which we
could at least detect). It is my understanding that some people even
have repositories where multiple users share the same filesystem uid but
connect with different ssh keys.  I don't think that is even detectable.

-Peff
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  1. Martin LanghoffFeb 8, 2008
  2. Martin LanghoffFeb 8, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2008
  4. Steffen ProhaskaFeb 9, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008
  8. Martin LanghoffFeb 8, 2008
  9. Mike HommeyFeb 8, 2008
  10. SeanFeb 8, 2008
  11. Steffen ProhaskaFeb 8, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008
  13. Martin LanghoffFeb 8, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008
  15. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2008
  16. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2008
  18. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2008
  19. Steffen ProhaskaFeb 9, 2008
  20. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2008
  22. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2008
  23. Martin LanghoffFeb 9, 2008
  24. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2008
  26. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2008
  27. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  28. [RFC] checkout to notice forks (Re: Minor annoyance with git push)Junio C Hamano, Feb 17, 2008
  29. Daniel BarkalowFeb 17, 2008
  30. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2008
  31. Daniel BarkalowFeb 17, 2008
  32. Junio C HamanoFeb 17, 2008
  33. Daniel BarkalowFeb 17, 2008
  34. Jeff KingFeb 17, 2008
  35. Santi BéjarFeb 20, 2008
  36. Martin LanghoffFeb 19, 2008
  37. checkout: tone down the "forked status" diagnostic messagesJunio C Hamano, Feb 20, 2008
  38. Jeff KingFeb 21, 2008
  39. checkout: updates to tracking reportJunio C Hamano, Feb 21, 2008
  40. Jay SoffianFeb 21, 2008
  41. Daniel BarkalowFeb 21, 2008
  42. Jay SoffianFeb 21, 2008
  43. Steffen ProhaskaFeb 9, 2008
  44. Johannes SchindelinFeb 9, 2008
  45. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2008
  46. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  47. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2008
  48. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  49. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2008
  50. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  51. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2008
  52. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2008
  53. Johannes SchindelinFeb 20, 2008
  54. Jay SoffianFeb 20, 2008
  55. Johannes SchindelinFeb 20, 2008
  56. Steven WalterFeb 21, 2008
  57. Johannes SchindelinFeb 22, 2008
  58. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2008
  59. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2008
  60. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2008
  61. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2008
  62. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2008
  63. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2008
  64. Wincent ColaiutaFeb 10, 2008
  65. Steven WalterFeb 10, 2008
  66. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  67. Johannes SchindelinFeb 10, 2008
  68. Wincent ColaiutaFeb 10, 2008
  69. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2008
  70. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2008
  71. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2008

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