Re: git push default behaviour?

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

Here's an attempt to an improved message. The first paragraph is here to make sure people understand their opinion counts (before they stop reading because it's too long). The rest explains the change and the way to get involved:

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There is a proposal to change the default behaviour of 'git push' on the Git mailing list. The goal of this message is to encourage you to discuss it before it happens (or the change is aborted, depending on the outcome of the discussion).

In the current setting (i.e. push.default=matching), 'git push' without argument will push all branches that exist locally and remotely with the same name. This is usually appropriate when a developer pushes to his own public repository, but confusing if not dangerous when using a shared repository. The proposal is to change the default to 'upstream', i.e. push only the current branch, and push it to the upstream branch (the one 'git pull' would pull from). 'current' is another candidate.

For more details on the behavior of Git with these values, read the documentation about 'push.default' in 'man git-config' (http://schacon.github.com/git/git-config.html).

You may be negatively affected when such a change happens if you do not see anything in the output from 'git config push.default' and if you rely on the fact that 'git push' pushes all your matching branches. On the other hand, you may want to see the default behaviour to change, especially if you are using shared repositories. In either case, please join the discussion to give us more data point and help us decide the future of Git.

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