From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:37:16 GMT
Subject: Re: git push default behaviour?
Message-ID: <CAHkcothno3tQG0G-5Mo7vVbKxUkNGqWd+6BRWhjnKafrSp1FTw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F58C977.8000400@xiplink.com>

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com> wrote:
>
> Perhaps --force should be changed to require an explicit ref if push.default
> = matching (and the code finds that it needs to use push.default's value)?

No, it will workflow for some people. In general, --force should not be
used, but when it is used, it is used for a reason. If you need another
behavior like forcing only the current branch then you probably should add
--force-current or something like that, but not to break what works now.

Dmitry