Re: [RFC/PATCH] git push usability improvements and default change

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 11, 2009, 20:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7i2v4x2v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090310100400.GC11448@pvv.org>

Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> writes:

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> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:07:08PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>>  * What's the point of having --current option, when you can already
>> say HEAD, i.e.  $ git push origin HEAD
>
> It does something very different. Maybe --tracking would be a better name.
> --current does basically this:
> ...
> The goal here is to be able to:
>
> git checkout -b junios-next origin/next
> git push --current  <=>  git push origin junios-next:next
>
> git push origin HEAD would do git push origin junios-next:junios-next,
> which was not the intention.

Ok, now that sort of makes sense, and is very different from people would expect from --current, which I think most people would associate with HEAD. "tracking" or "track back" would be a better name.