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Re: Random thoughts on "upstream"

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
May 23, 2013, 17:41 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I am not saying default=single would be _the_ single right way to
> solve it, but "when you have default=single, remote.$name.push is
> used only to describe the mapping, not forcing you to push
> everything out at once" is one possible solution to that.

The big advantage it has, in my opinion, is ease of implementation: you'd essentially have to grab the remote.<name>.push refspec, rewrite it to replace refs/heads/*: with $HEAD: and feed that refspec to the transport layer. Compare that to inventing a new refspec syntax, which is a mammoth task. We can always extend the refspec later, if we want that. I wonder if it makes sense to bake the functionality into current though: will we be breaking anything?

(My opinion has changed after wrestling with the horrible transport layer)
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  1. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2013
  2. Felipe ContrerasMay 16, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2013
  4. Felipe ContrerasMay 17, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2013
  6. Felipe ContrerasMay 17, 2013
  7. Felipe ContrerasMay 17, 2013
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 17, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 17, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2013
  12. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 18, 2013
  13. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 18, 2013
  14. Felipe ContrerasMay 18, 2013
  15. Felipe ContrerasMay 18, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2013
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 19, 2013
  18. Felipe ContrerasMay 19, 2013
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 19, 2013
  20. Felipe ContrerasMay 19, 2013
  21. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2013
  22. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 23, 2013
  23. Felipe ContrerasMay 23, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2013
  25. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 23, 2013
  26. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 24, 2013

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