From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:46:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try harder to find a remote when on a detached HEAD or non-tracking branch.
Message-ID: <20120619214646.GA22436@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4FE0F267.5070803@xiplink.com>

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:43:03PM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:

> I suggest git would be better off changing the way it finds the default
> remote to:
> 
> 	Use the currently checked-out branch's remote;
> 	or Use the remote specified in the original clone command[*];
> 	or use "origin".
> 
> [*] With some strong mechanism for identifying this remote.

Yes, that sounds like a much saner path. I think your [*] is just
"record the different name in remote.default during the clone".

Then we continue to use "origin" when that is not set (so existing repos
without "-o" see no change at all). New repos cloned with "-o" would be
fixed. Old repos cloned with "-o" are still broken, but there is at
least a simple one-time workaround ("git config remote.default foo").

-Peff