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Re: [PATCH] push: change needlessly ambiguous example in error

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Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
Date
Nov 14, 2018, 06:36 UTC
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"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Where 'topic' is a tracking branch of 'origin/master' (I use
> > push.default=upstream). I only recently discovered that I could push to
> > 'HEAD" to do the same thing. So one ulterior motive is to make that more
> > prominent.
[...]
> Do we consider the current behaviour useful? Is it documented
Yes, since 1750783 (Documentation: more git push examples, 2009-01-26).

It may be an accident that the doc says "to the same name on the remote." since it predates the introduction of push.default, but it does say so and it's the actual behavior.

> already and widely known?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14031970/git-push-current-branch-shortcut
458 votes for the answer suggesting it.
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Matthieu Moy
https://matthieu-moy.fr/
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  1. push: change needlessly ambiguous example in errorÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Nov 13, 2018
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