From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:27:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git-push and $GIT_DIR/branches
Message-ID: <7vfxm3f9z8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081107204451.GA10394@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler) writes:

> I asume, that you [and probably many other] are not very interrested
> in this feature. But would you accept a patch changing the push
> refspec to HEAD:refs/heads/<head>?

I believe "git-push foo" with .git/branches/foo has worked the way it does
now from day one, so the above change you suggest breaks peoples'
expectations and documented behaviour, _if_ people are using "branches"
with git-push.  It definitely is a no-go to just change the behaviour
without warning and deprecation period, but with a careful transition
plan, I personally do not think there is a fundamental reason not to
improve it (others may disagree).

I do not know what Cogito did when you told it to push with such a
configuration, though.  Its "branches" had quite different semantics from
the concept of "remote" in git.