From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:20:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] builtin-push: add --delete as syntactic sugar for :foo
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0911090920y70ca37a6h85cb38e97976bb59@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8wefy6pi.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 17:59, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> writes:
>> Specifically, --delete will prepend a colon to all colon-less refspecs
>> given on the command line.
>
> Will it barf and error out if there is any colon-ful one?  I think it
> should.  I was about to write "I guess it could be argued both ways", but
> after thinking about it for 5 seconds I do not see a sane way to explain a
> command line "push origin --delete one two:three".

Did we not have this discussion not 3 months ago and decided it was a bad idea?

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/125894

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier