Re: [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2013, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20130410212329.GD27070@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130410201103.GD24177@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 01:05:12PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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>> 	git push
>>
>> and "[push] default = upstream", then it is obvious what the user
>> wanted to happen.  But what about when "[push] default = matching"?
>> Which of the following behaviors is correct?
>>
>>  a) Error: you didn't tell me which remote to push to.
>>  b) Just behave like "git push my-personal-remote :".
>>  c) Ignore which branch is the current branch and behave like
>>     "git push origin :".
>>
>> How about when "[push] default = current"?
>>
>> Except that people might have scripts or habits tied to the current
>> behavior, any of (a), (b), and (c) sounds fine to me.  (b) is the
>> obvious choice for historical reasons.
>
> I think (b) could be quite surprising to a user. I suspect it hasn't
> come up because people just don't work with a lot of different remotes
> in practice.

Yeah, I think you're right.

I'll try writing a series to switch to (c) for [push] default = matching and (a) for default = simple (and one of the two for default = current. Not sure which yet).

Thanks, Jonathan