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Re: [PATCH] git-push.txt: mention about remote.*.push when no refspec is given

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 8, 2013, 10:58 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> I agree that saying what it is, what it does or what it is for
> upfront (i.e. "Specifies what are pushed") before how it is spelled
> is an improvement.  I however think describing "If not specified"
> here was a mistake, and you are making it worse by burying the
> description of what happens when <refspec>... are missing in the
> middle of the description for <refspec>...
>
> I would rather see this done in the direction the attached "how
> about doing it this way" patch illustrates.  The way how "where" and
> "what" are determined when the command line does not specify is the
> proparty of the entire command, not of an individual parameter.
I agree your patch looks better than mine. Put it on 'pu', perhaps?
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Duy
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  1. git-push.txt: mention about remote.*.push when no refspec is givenNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 6, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 6, 2013
  3. Duy NguyenMar 8, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 8, 2013

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