Re: [PATCH v2] status: compare against both upstream and push branch by default

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 23, 2026, 22:10 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtsmc2hmn.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAHwyqnVMgAhyHrevXOJ0sBKkaPPzSmCcCPSSeqm6dm-MRX65cQ@mail.gmail.com>

Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com> writes:

> This is the point behind this: To ease users into triangular thinking.
> We should not assume our users are git experts, many of my them never
> read the git docs.

So instead we should assume that they start from mental model that was destroyed by use of GitHub? The need to do so somehow makes it smell like a sad world.