Re: [PATCH 5/8] push, send-pack: support pushing HEAD to real ref name

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Oct 28, 2007, 15:59 UTC
Message-ID: <EE8B843C-5276-4FEC-ABDD-FC456EFD3D75@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4uzuu1g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Oct 28, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>
>> On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> This teaches "push <remote> HEAD" to resolve HEAD on the local
>>>> side to its real ref name, e.g. refs/heads/master, and then
>>>> use the real ref name on the remote side to search a matching
>>>> remote ref.
>>>
>>> This probably is a good idea.
>>
>> I'll add an even shorter shorthand: "git push HEAD" will push
>> the current branch to its default remote.
>
> Ugh, that looks way too magicky.  The first parameter to push if
> one ever exists has _always_ been the remote, and the above
> breaks it.

Yes. It breaks setups that have a remote named HEAD.

> Please don't.

I already did it -- it was too easy. But it's a separate patch. So it can easily be skipped.

What would you propose for pushing only the current branch to its default remote repository? All information is there. Only a way to tell push to restrict push to the current branch is missing. Would you prefer something like "git push --only-current-branch"?

	Steffen