From: Stephen R. van den Berg Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:08:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] make "git push" update origin and mirrors, "git push --mirror" update mirrors Message-ID: <20080428060810.GA11858@cuci.nl> In-Reply-To: <20080428033237.GN29771@spearce.org> Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >It also clearly harms people who have only origin and want to grab >updates from there with just `git fetch` or `git pull`. Such a >change would be asking these users to enter a longer command line. Maybe this can be accomodated by having git fetch/git pull reference all targets specified in the config file if none are specified on the command line? >On the other hand, I think it would teach those users how to better >make use of git, and may cause less questions when they have to >step slightly outside of their normal use case and specify a refspec. I've been using git since november, and I found the magic "origin" default one of the most confusing aspects (to figure out when it applies and when not, and why (or why not)). -- Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl Stephen R. van den Berg.