From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:52:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.10-rc3
Message-ID: <20120329095236.GA11911@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd37wv77j.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:47:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>  * When you do not tell which branches and tags to push to the "git push"
>    command in any way, the command used "matching refs" rule to update
>    remote branches and tags with branches and tags with the same name you
>    locally have.  In future versions of Git, this will change to use the
>    "upstream" rule to update the branch at the remote you would "pull"
>    from into your current branch with your local current branch.  The
>    release after 1.7.10 will start issuing a warning about this change,
>    to encourage you to tell the command what to push out, e.g. by setting
>    push.default configuration.

Did we decide that "upstream" will be the new rule in future versions? I
still have some misgivings about that (versus "current"), but I thought
the only decision we were settling now was whether to change at all.

-Peff