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

From
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date
Oct 30, 2008, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20081030144107.GE24098@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To
<2008-10-30-15-23-16+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:23:16PM +0000, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
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> I think it would be better to have :
> 
>   git push                <= push the current branch
>   git push --all          <= push all matching refs
>   git push --all --create <= push all matching refs, create if needed
> 
> The latest command is probably used so rarely (compared to the others)
> that it wouldn't be a problem to make it longer. Of course, if a
> refspec is given explicitely, it should be honored and remote refs
> created if needed.
Fwiw I'm in favor of that, and it was what I advocated at the time.

Though I think than as soon as you add an explicit remote name, like: git push origin, pushing all matched references makes sense. Which is also what I advocated at the time.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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