From: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:28:56 GMT
Subject: Re: git push <branch-name>
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=sDDXRKuHf93cZ4fSVpZFvgyB+k934qg7gDL9T@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201010051811.49211.ComputerDruid@gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Daniel Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't that syntax reserved for remotes?
> for example:
>
> git push origin
>
> I feel like it would be a bad idea to have these 2 types of invocations
> overlap in syntax like that.

The idea is that given "git push <branch>" if <branch> is NOT a remote but
IS a branch name then git could unambiguously provide the correct remote.

Naturally if there's a branch and a remote of the same name then for backwards
compatibility the remote would be chosen.