From: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:41:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Some updates to refspec documentation
Message-ID: <878ws7b0d2.fsf@cup.kalibalik.dk>
In-Reply-To: <1225311945-17100-1-git-send-email-mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>

During my struggle, I also found a git push usability problem. The
refspec ":dst" will delete the remote branch without warning.

While this is indeed documented, you cannot blame somebody for
thinking that a left out <src> will default to HEAD, as it does for so
many other commands.

In a CVS-like setup, with everybody pushing to master, this could
cause havoc.

As the "git push <repository> :<dst>" operation is destructive, I
think it should be protected by the -f option.

For the record, I did realize this before trying to push ":master" :-).



Anders.