Re: [PATCH] Try harder to find a remote when on a detached HEAD or non-tracking branch.

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 02:58:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:43:03PM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>> >
>> >> I suggest git would be better off changing the way it finds the default
>> >> remote to:
>> >> 
>> >> 	Use the currently checked-out branch's remote;
>> >> 	or Use the remote specified in the original clone command[*];
>> >> 	or use "origin".
>> >> 
>> >> [*] With some strong mechanism for identifying this remote.
>> >
>> > Yes, that sounds like a much saner path. I think your [*] is just
>> > "record the different name in remote.default during the clone".
>> >
>> > Then we continue to use "origin" when that is not set (so existing repos
>> > without "-o" see no change at all). New repos cloned with "-o" would be
>> > fixed. Old repos cloned with "-o" are still broken, but there is at
>> > least a simple one-time workaround ("git config remote.default foo").
>> 
>> Yeah, I can certainly buy that.
>
> It is also a step towards defining remote.defaultFetch and
> remote.defaultPush if you wanted them to be different, something that
> has come up in conversation a few times (e.g., when you treat a
> read-only upstream as your origin, but publish elsewhere).