git push doesn't use local branch name as default

From: Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com>
Date: May 28, 2021, 06:29 UTC
Message-ID: <fcf30899-8e64-5417-f478-14d6aca72544@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3b9bc214-a30a-ba49-af96-7eeaf37b7bbd@gmail.com>

Felipe,

thanks for your reply.

> Sounds like you want to change the default to `push.default=current`.

Yes, but shouldn't `simple` pushing also work? The documentation says about `push.default=simple`:

> When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally
> pull from, work as `current`.

If there is no upstream, then there also is no "remote I normally pull from", and thus, according to the doc, `simple` should actually work like `current` in this case. Am I wrong here?

If `simple` pushing is used, it doesn't seem to make sense for me to fallback to `current` on branches which *do* have an upstream, but to error out on branches which do *not* have an upstream.

Cheers Mathias Kunter

Am 27.05.21 um 21:51 schrieb Felipe Contreras:

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> Mathias Kunter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> at https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push#_description it says:
>>
>>> When neither the command-line nor the configuration specify what to
>>> push, the default behavior is used, which corresponds to the simple
>>> value for push.default: the current branch is pushed to the
>>> corresponding upstream branch, but as a safety measure, the push is
>>> aborted if the upstream branch does not have the same name as the local
>>> one.
>>
>> However, on a branch which does *not* have an upstream branch
>> configured, the command
>>
>>> git push <remote_name>
>>
>> doesn't use the local branch name as default,
> 
> Yes it does, but only on the src side of the refspec. Something like:
> 
>    git push <remote_name> <branch_name>:
> 
> (invalid refspec)
> 
> Note the remote side is missing, so git doesn't know where to push to.
> 
>> Note that it *does* work if the remote branch name is explicitly specified:
>>
>>> git push <remote_name> <branch_name>
> 
> In that case git assumes you mean <branch_name>:<branch_name>.
> 
> Sounds like you want to change the default to `push.default=current`.
> 
> Cheers.
>