From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:04:43 GMT
Subject: disallowing push to currently checked-out branch
Message-ID: <20090216000443.GB3503@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090215232013.GA11543@zakalwe.fi>

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:20:13AM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote:

> > * git-push to update the checked out branch will be refused by default
> > 
> >   Make "git push" into a repository to update the branch that is checked
> >   out fail by default.
> > 
> >   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
> 
> If this is implemented, it shouldn't, in my opinion, be a default 
> setting. I regularly push to checkout repos when I'm doing cross machine 
> development. However, I could live with a configurable setting as 
> proposed in the given URL. I think Git should not be too cautious about 
> following users instructions. The user knows what is best for him/her ;)

It is already implemented; the proposal is about setting the default.
The plans for 1.6.2 are already to issue a warning and ask the user to
set the config variable to shut it up.

-Peff