From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:25:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Random thoughts on "upstream"
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> [remote "theodore"]
>     push = master
>     push = +pu
>
> This means that I will always push master without force and pu with
> force, irrespective of the branch I'm on.
>
> [remote "origin"]
>     push = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/rr/*
>
> This means that I will always push all branches without force with
> rewriting, irrespective of the branch I'm on.

Exactly.  And some people are unhappy about it, because they prefer
to work per-branch basis, as opposed to having to perfect everything
into a publishable state first and then finally push everything out
in one go.

I am not saying default=single would be _the_ single right way to
solve it, but "when you have default=single, remote.$name.push is
used only to describe the mapping, not forcing you to push
everything out at once" is one possible solution to that.