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Re: git push default behaviour?

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Mar 8, 2012, 11:54 UTC
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Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
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> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:13 +0000, Jeremy Morton wrote:
>> Right, so I guess I'm saying that the default value for push.default
>> should be upstream instead of matching...
>
> Any default is going to leave some people unhappy. If upstream is the
> right thing for you, then that's what you should use. Most questions I
> see about push not doing what the users expect would actually benefit
> from 'current'. 'matching' is a fairly safe default, as it won't try to
> push private branches or changes in private branches that track
> something upstream.

There were some discussions about changing the default, and I thought people agreed that 'upstream' was a better default value for push.default:

  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/167149

it needs to be done with a sane migration path, however, and I guess no one stepped in to start the process (but I may have missed some further discussions).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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