Re: git push (mis ?)behavior

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 3, 2007, 15:27 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710031550490.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071003104943.GA3017@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:

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>   2. "push all branches" is the default, but the user intended to push
>      only the current branch. She ends up pushing a superset of what
>      she wanted, which is not easily fixed if she can't be sure that
>      no one else has pulled from the public repo before she notices
>      what's happened.

But that is not the default.  Not at all.

The default is to push the refs which the remote and the local side have _in common_.

Maybe we should initialise the "remote.origin.push" variable to "completely-bogus-branchname" when you "git init --im-a-newbie"?

Ciao, Dscho