From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:45:05 GMT Subject: Re: Friendly refspecs Message-ID: <7vd4ohy5ym.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20080422200550.GB29313@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > No, the proposal is: > > "git push $there $commit:$name", when $name does not begin with > refs/, is interpreted as "git push $there > $commit:$prefix/$name", where $prefix is determined by resolving > $commit and pulling off its first two directories. > > (or maybe this should just be picky and DWIM only for refs/heads and > refs/tags). So "git push v1.0" is the same as "git push v1.0:v1.0", > which is the same as "git push refs/tags/v1.0:refs/tags/v1.0". Where is $there in your example? Funny but I recall recently running "git push ko v1.5.5.1" and it all worked as expected... I thought the original poster's example was git push $there $commit:branch2 where $commit happened to be "branch1". Would we dwim git push $there branch1~4:this_is_known_ok to refs/heads/?