From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:49:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Not pushing all branches?
Message-ID: <20090313164941.GA16504@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903130846410.17450@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:48:55AM +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:

> Doing "git push remote" pushes all my local branches by default. Is there 
> a way to set it to *not* do that, and (for this particular remote 
> repository) just push the current branch? Or failing that, not allow me to 
> run "git push" without specifying a branch?
>
> The git-config manual page leads me to believe that I should recofigure  
> "remote.<name>.push", but it points me to the "refspec" spec on git-push,  
> which is a tad cryptic.

There seem to be a lot of responses in this thread, but nobody has
suggested:

  git config remote.$remote.push HEAD

It isn't mentioned in the git-push manpage; maybe a documentation patch
to give an example using HEAD would make sense?

-Peff