Re: [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
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- Apr 9, 2013, 17:39 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> host:foo/bar (take my "host" branch, push it to their "foo/bar" > branch) could be tricky, no? It could be trying to go over the ssh > to "host" and access repository at $HOME/foo/bar. The git_connect() > call may even succeed and you cannot use the failure as a hint to > disambiguate. > > Also the request may genuinely be to access foo/bar repository at > the host, but the network layer had trouble connecting temporarily > to the host. After disambiguating incorrectly to push to the > origin, mapping our host branch to their foo/bar branch, that push > might even succeed.
Oh, ouch. I didn't think of that. What do you suggest we do? Go with Duy's simple '-' solution, or try some heuristics that may lead to confusing behavior in edge cases?