Re: [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> host:foo/bar (take my "host" branch, push it to their "foo/bar"
>> branch) could be tricky, no?  It could be trying to go over the ssh
>> to "host" and access repository at $HOME/foo/bar.  The git_connect()
>> call may even succeed and you cannot use the failure as a hint to
>> disambiguate.
>>
>> Also the request may genuinely be to access foo/bar repository at
>> the host, but the network layer had trouble connecting temporarily
>> to the host.  After disambiguating incorrectly to push to the
>> origin, mapping our host branch to their foo/bar branch, that push
>> might even succeed.
>
> Oh, ouch.  I didn't think of that.  What do you suggest we do?  Go
> with Duy's simple '-' solution, or try some heuristics that may lead
> to confusing behavior in edge cases?