Re: [PATCH] push: Learn to set up branch tracking with '--track'

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:28:38AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > > Something like the patch below (which is obviously missing all of the 
> > > infrastructure for doing this optionally, but is meant to illustrate 
> > > what I'm talking about).
> > 
> > Except that you miss http:// and rsync:// protocols.  Those were the 
> > reasons I did not touch send-pack.
> 
> You didn't comment on the part of my email where I said exactly that,
> but that I think this is still the right path forward.
> 
> Pushing through those protocols is sorely in need of update (actually,
> I thought rsync was all but dead at this point). But http push is
> missing the update of tracking refs, the usual status output (it still
> has the "Maybe you are not up-to-date and need to pull first?" message
> that was removed from send-pack a year and a half ago), and who knows
> what other tweaks made to do_send_pack (which it appears to have been
> copy-and-pasted from in 2006) in the last few years.
> 
> So either we don't care about http-push being consistent with send-pack,
> and it is OK to have this feature in one but not the other. Or we do,
> and we really need to clean up the current divergence.