From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:16:24 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/1] Make request-pull able to take a refspec of form local:remote Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > So I don't actually think anybody should need to be retrained, or > "always use the local:remote" syntax. The local:remote syntax exists > only for that special insane case where you used (the same) > local:remote syntax to push out a branch under a different name. > > [ And yeah, maybe that behavior is more common than I think, but even > if it is, such behavior would always be among people who are *very* > aware of the whole "local branch vs remote branch name is different" > situation. ] As the new default for "git push" would push to the same name, I agree that people who are now forced to use local:remote syntax would be the ones who know what they are doing [*1*]. So there are two remaining items, I think. - After creating a tags/for-linus signed tag and pushing it to tags/for-linus, asking request-pull to request that tag to be pulled seems to lose the tag message from the output. - Docs. [Footnote] *1* Not that it is always acceptable to break the existing users as long as they are clueful ones and they are given an escape hatch. But this time I know I won't be in the middle of firestorm like the one we had immediately after 1.6.0, as long as I keep the URL of the message I am responding to in the list archive ;-)