From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:43:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote
Message-ID: <7v1ubbl7jn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8Ad7rKtMd-6BoBtbVa70F0AaJ+OUjEykNh344tPw7F7Vg@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Assume that we agree on what remote is implied, we could simplify
> parsing by specifying the remote with "." (or something short and
> unambiguous). So the above command would become
>
> git push . foo:bar

That is an established idiom, a handy way to update your own bar
branch to commit pointed by foo branch when and only when the update
fast-forwards.

Please don't.