From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 04:17:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] push: add an advice on unqualified <dst> push
Message-ID: <xmqqy3ah5qtm.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5zxla7nd.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

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

> To put it another way, I would think both of these two have at most
> the same probability that the push wants to go to a local branch:
>
> 	git push refs/remotes/foo:foo
> 	git push <any random sha1 expression>:foo
>
> and I would further say that the former is less likely than the
> latter that it wants to create a local branch, because it is more
> plausible that it wants to create a similar remote-tracking branch
> there.

This needs clarification.  I do not mean "it is more plausible that
it wants remote-tracking rather than local".  What I meant was that
between the two cases, pushing refs/remotes/foo:foo is more likely a
sign that the user wants to create a local branch than pushing other
random sha1 expression, like 40eaf9377fe649:foo, is.