From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:52:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Friendly refspecs
Message-ID: <7v63u9zva9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080422105658.GA11238@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The "refs/heads/" dwimmery makes sense to me, because:
>
>   1. it changes a behavior which is currently an error condition, so
>      we're not hurting anyone's existing workflow
>
>   2. In my usage, pushing a branch to a tag (or vice versa) is the
>      exception, so I don't mind favoring pushing like types to like
>      types.
>
> But I recognize that (2) is based on my own workflow, so if people
> disagree, I guess it isn't so for everyone.

So the proposal is:

	"git push $there $commit:$name", when $name does not begin with
	refs/, is interpreted as "git push $there $commit:refs/heads/$name"

right?  I think that makes sense, at least to me.