From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:41:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Proposal: branch.<name>.remotepush
Message-ID: <7v38x766b2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130207233017.GD19397@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> The usual incantation is "git push gerrit HEAD:refs/for/master".  Is
> the code review creation push that uses a different branchname from
> the branch the integrator pulls what seems backward, or is it the need
> to specify a refname at all on the command line?
>
> I agree that a "[branch "master"] pushremote" configuration would be
> handy.  pushremote instead of remotepush to be less surprising to
> people who have already seen pushurl.

I'd actually see this as Gerrit being weird.

If it wants to quarantine a commit destined to the "master" branch,
couldn't it just let people push to "master" and then internally
update "for/master" instead?