From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:07:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged
Message-ID: <7vehn855yo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <502BECAD.90307@ira.uka.de>

"Holger Hellmuth (IKS)" <hellmuth@ira.uka.de> writes:

> Am 15.08.2012 19:30, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> The current rule is very
>> simple and understandable.  You either say from the command line
>> exactly what should happen (refspec without colon is the same as the
>> refspec with colon at the end, meaning "do not track"; if you want
>> to track, you write what to update with the fetch), or we use the
>> configured refspec (which again spells what should happen).
>
> Couldn't a similar new rule just say that refspec <name> is a short
> for <name>:<name> ?

Of course not.