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Default behavior of git pull

From
Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com>
Date
May 31, 2021, 09:18 UTC
Message-ID
<7a97ac78-f405-2dca-2998-f03637cc8255@gmail.com>

Wouldn't it make sense if "git pull" would by default also pull the branch with the same name from the remote, in case no upstream is configured?

If I can push to a remote with a simple "git push", then I'd also expect to be able to pull from that same remote with a simple "git pull".

Does anything speak against this?
Example:
   git clone $url
   git checkout -b fix-1
   # do commits
   git push           # push to origin/fix-1 (works)
   git push origin    # push to origin/fix-1 (works)
   # other people push to origin/fix-1
   git pull           # pull from origin/fix-1 (fails)
   git pull origin    # pull from origin/fix-1 (fails)
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