From: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:13:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] push: start warning upcoming default change for push.default
Message-ID: <4F5E12A5.6030701@xiplink.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F5AF1A8.4050604@alum.mit.edu>

On 12-03-10 01:16 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> 
> I propose that the default should be even stricter: like "current", it
> would push to an branch with the same name as the current local branch,
> *but only if that branch already exists on the remote*.  It would only
> be possible to create a new branch on the remote by calling "git push"
> with an explicit branch argument.  I believe that such a policy would do
> the right thing in the cases where the "right thing" is pretty
> unambiguous, and would require a user decision in other cases.

I haven't thought it through very deeply, but at first glance this seems like
reasonable default behaviour to me.

		M.