Re: git push interface inconsistency

From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 26, 2009, 22:31 UTC
Message-ID: <32541b130910261531o36b8ce7eh6bddf26a2ae15663@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8580910261525y5397b54eyf9c3d58c0fe19fce@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have a question:
>
> Why I can't do
>
> $ git push my_tag
>
> It will fail because the remote is not specified, even if there is
> only one origin remote
>
> but can do
>
> $ git push --tags
>
> and it will push tags to origin...

Because 'my_tag' is interpreted as the name or URL of the remote, not as a branch name. You can do "git push origin" and it will guess the branch name(s) to push, but because of that, the one-parameter push can't *also* be used to guess the remote name.

In contrast, --tags is a flag, so it's actually the zero-parameter version of push, which assumes 'origin' and then guesses the branch name (and --tags changes the guessed result).

Hope that helps.

Have fun,

Avery