Re: git push (mis ?)behavior

> On 2007-10-03 16:27:49 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
> >
> > >   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_.
> 
> I know, and that's what I meant by "all branches". Sorry for the
> sloppy language.
> 
> > Maybe we should initialise the "remote.origin.push" variable to
> > "completely-bogus-branchname" when you "git init --im-a-newbie"?
> 
> I'd rather have a suboptimal default than different defaults depending
> on user settings. (See also Junio's comment on that elsewhere in this
> thread.)