From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:09:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Please discuss: what "git push" should do when you do not say what to push?
Message-ID: <7vhaxi50q8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F68F4A3.60506@pileofstuff.org>

Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org> writes:

> I assume the reason for removing the warning altogether is that some day
> the signal:noise ratio will just get too bad.

The reasoning is a lot simpler than that.

If the end game is not remove the warning, then we would be switching to a
new default that is "give loud warning until the user configures her own
default, but push upstream/current anyway" mode.  We do not want such a
stupid mode as the default---we want the default to be either upstream or
current at the end, when nobody remembers what the ancient default was.

The "warn loud but do it anyway" is a very good interim step during the
migration, but is never a good default.  If we are going to stop there,
"give loud warning until the user chooses and configures the default, and
push nothing" mode would be a LOT safer and saner default, as it would
really force people to configure the default.  Obviously we do not want to
go there, so...