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Re: Random thoughts on "upstream"

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 19, 2013, 12:00 UTC
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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> You can't represent push.default = single either.
>
> Right.  And I propose that we extend the refspec to be able to
> represent it, instead of having "single" sticking out like a sore
> thumb (and possibly introducing more sore thumbs like this in the
> future).

Yeah, go ahead and have fun making refspecs Turing complete. Why? Because you decided to call something a "sore thumb". Calling something a "sore thumb" doesn't make it so.

We, the sane people, will people will keep using simple configuration options. Hopefully some day there won't be much need for many of the current configurations, including push.default.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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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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