From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:58:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Try harder to find a remote when on a detached HEAD or non-tracking branch. Message-ID: <7vsjdrx8tt.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120619214646.GA22436@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King 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.