From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:35:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] push: make 'set-upstream' have dafault arguments
Message-ID: <xmqq35m3ck7s.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20220104132839.1209-1-chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>

Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> writes:

> * For push.default=upstream, If an upstream is already defined then
>   'git push -u' should only set that branch as the upstream of the
>   local branch. This already works in git. But if an upstream is not
>   provied, it should throw error. So, I am not sure whether 'git push
>   -u' (with no upstream information) should create a new branch with
>   the same name or not. What do you think about that?

I think erring on the side of caution is more sensible than blindly
assuming that the user wants a new branch with the same name.

Thank you for working on the topic and thinking its ramifications
through.