Re: [PATCH 01/10] push: change push to fail if short refname does not exist

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2007, 08:29 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwst5m2eq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <11935935812741-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> Pushing a short refname used to create a new ref on on the
> remote side if it did not yet exist. If you specified the wrong
> branch accidentally it was created. A safety valve that pushes
> only existing branches may help to avoid errors.

On the other hand, if you specified a wrong branch that exists on the remote end accidentally, it still was pushed. Do we want to have a new "--i-really-want-to-push" option to make it safer?

I do not think so. Why should a new branch be treated any differently?

Will drop 1/10 and 2/10 for now.

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