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Re: Adding push configuration to .git/config

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2007, 08:28 UTC
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
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> Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2007, at 2:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> ...
>>> If we were to do this, it might also make sense to rename the
>>> word 'origin' we use for the default remote name to 'default' or
>>> something.  People with shared repository workflow would fetch
>>> from one repository and push back to the same repository, so the
>>> distinction would not matter, but for others who need something
>>> like you suggest, the default repository for fetching and
>>> pushing are different, and while you may still consider where
>>> you fetch from your 'origin', where you push into is not your
>>> 'origin' anymore.
>>
>> I like this idea.
>
> I don't. It's troublesome enough to try to teach the finer points
> of git to my co-workers without different defaults between versions.

I don't like the s/origin/default/ part either, which was the reason I said "it might". That would be what I would have done if I were doing git from scratch right now.

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Message 6 of 16 in “Adding push configuration to .git/config”
  1. Nico -telmich- SchotteliusNov 21, 2007
  2. Steffen ProhaskaNov 21, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 22, 2007
  4. Steffen ProhaskaNov 22, 2007
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 22, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoNov 22, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 22, 2007
  8. Steffen ProhaskaNov 22, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinNov 22, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoNov 22, 2007
  11. Andreas EricssonNov 22, 2007
  12. Steffen ProhaskaNov 22, 2007
  13. Nico -telmich- SchotteliusNov 28, 2007
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 29, 2007
  16. Jakub NarebskiNov 30, 2007

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