Re: git push doesn't use local branch name as default

From: Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com>
Date: May 28, 2021, 08:51 UTC
Message-ID: <287483ba-d682-6d04-23fa-22c33ab70376@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <f9f38d42-2b93-0d3b-798b-4c6f44eb111d@gmail.com>

Note that git itself also claims this should be working. If I do a "git push" on a branch without upstream, I will get:

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> fatal: No configured push destination.
> Either specify the URL from the command-line or configure a remote repository using
> 
>     git remote add <name> <url>
> 
> and then push using the remote name
> 
>     git push <name>

However, the advised "git push <name>" command won't work on that branch with the default settings of Git. To make it work, `simple` pushing would have to use `current` behavior on a branch without upstream.

Please consider changing that. Thank you.

Cheers Mathias Kunter

Am 28.05.21 um 09:44 schrieb Mathias Kunter:

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>> you only get the "current" behavior when fetch_remote is non-NULL.
> 
> Well, then my suggestion actually is to also use the `current` behavior 
> when fetch_remote is NULL - i.e. change
> 
>> return (fetch_remote && fetch_remote != remote);
> 
> to
> 
>> return (!fetch_remote || fetch_remote != remote);
> 
> I'd argue that if `simple` pushing is used, then the expected behavior 
> of the command
> 
>> git push <remote_name>
> 
> on a branch without upstream would actually be to use the `current` 
> behavior instead of bailing out with an error.
> 
> 
> Am 28.05.21 um 09:00 schrieb Elijah Newren:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:39 PM Mathias Kunter 
>> <mathiaskunter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Felipe,
>>>
>>> thanks for your reply.
>>>
>>>> Sounds like you want to change the default to `push.default=current`.
>>>
>>> Yes, but shouldn't `simple` pushing also work? The documentation says
>>> about `push.default=simple`:
>>>
>>>> When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally
>>>> pull from, work as `current`.
>>
>> Perhaps this wording should be clarified to read
>>
>> When you have a remote that you normally pull from but you are pushing
>> to a different remote then that one, then work as 'current'.
>>
>>> If there is no upstream, then there also is no "remote I normally pull
>>> from", and thus, according to the doc, `simple` should actually work
>>> like `current` in this case. Am I wrong here?
>>
>> The relevant code is
>>
>>      return (fetch_remote && fetch_remote != remote);
>>
>> so you only get the "current" behavior when fetch_remote is non-NULL.
>>