From: Clemens Buchacher Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:48:32 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default Message-ID: <20120316214832.GB25092@ecki> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:42:36PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Junio C Hamano writes: > > > Matthieu Moy writes: > > > >> I'd count "upstream is not set" as "current and upstream agree on > >> 'current'". IOW, use "current", but error out if there's a configured > >> upstream that is different. > > > > And if there is no configured upstream, should it error out, or should it > > just push the current one to its own name? > > I meant just push the current one to its own name. Altough in a somewhat rarer case, this has the same problem as "current": git checkout -b master origin/master git checkout -b topic master git push If a branch called topic already exists on origin, push will now try to update it with the local branch topic. But they do not have any clear connection, except for the name. Clemens