Re: [PATCH] Include a git-push example for creating a remote branch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2007, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8x7ke260.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a0709052257m4ddc5784obe64a8b75b79b19@mail.gmail.com>

"Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Maybe I"m weird, but I tend to think of the refs/... syntax as being
> for "only if you're doing something funny" cases.

The "refs/" syntax is there as the lowest level that is universally usable to create and any ref. It can be used to push to branches, tags, or even remotes (aka "simulated fetch in reverse").

It is just nobody felt strong enough reason to sugarcoat the normalized syntax with something like:

	git push --create remote foo v1.2.0

You can be a hero by updating git-push to take such, and make it interpret as if the user passed the normalized syntax which is:

	git push remote foo:refs/heads/foo v1.2.0:refs/tags/v1.2.0