From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Pierre Habouzit" <madcoder@debian.org>,
"Wincent Colaiuta" <win@wincent.com>,
"Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Subject: Re: git push (mis ?)behavior
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 16:47:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <717D7260-CE23-4397-8B13-264309094423@zib.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071003170241.GA7571@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
On Oct 3, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2007-10-03 17:44:39 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> I wonder how hard it would be to teach _everybody_ to specify
>> _exactly_ what they want.
>>
>> Of course, we'd need an "--existing" option to git-push to trigger
>> the behaviour that we have right now.
>
> I could _definitely_ live with that. If the branch config doesn't say
> what to do when no arguments are given, then demand a specification on
> the command line.
>
> I'll shut up on this topic now, though, since I'm not exactly helping
> with the patch/opinion ratio.
Here is an interesting related pitfall where my expectations about
the behaviour of git push in relation with tracking branches were
wrong. I should have know better, but I somehow forgot the details.
I expected that the following would establish a two-way link, not
only a one way link:
git checkout --track -b mynext origin/next
sets up a tracking branch and "git pull" fetches and merges changes
from origin/next as expected.
I somehow expected that "git push" would push changes from mynext to
origin/next. But it doesn't. It would only do so if I had chosen
the same name for the local branch, that is
git checkout --track -b next origin/next
would have set up a two-way link -- but maybe only as long as I don't
have other push lines in my config file. I'm not sure about the last
point.
I do not find it very intuitive to mangle the push behaviour into the
naming of the local branch. I think it would be a good idea if the
two commands above would either both setup a pull/push relation
or both would setup a pull-only relation. If pull-only would be the
default another switch could be provided to establish a pull/push
relation, like
git checkout --track --push -b mynext origin/next
Comments?
Steffen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-27 13:04 git push (mis ?)behavior Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-27 13:30 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-27 15:28 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-09-27 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-27 19:36 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-28 6:52 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-09-28 6:58 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-09-28 9:26 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-09-28 9:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-28 10:04 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-09-28 7:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-28 9:11 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-09-28 13:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-09 5:05 ` Jan Hudec
2007-10-09 7:23 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-09-28 12:38 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03 5:10 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-03 5:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-03 6:47 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03 8:32 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-03 7:35 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-03 8:57 ` Miles Bader
2007-10-03 9:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-03 10:25 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03 10:49 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-03 11:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-03 11:22 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03 13:14 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-03 15:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03 16:07 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-03 16:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03 16:28 ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-03 16:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03 17:02 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-10-04 14:47 ` Steffen Prohaska [this message]
2007-10-04 15:54 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-04 16:24 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-04 17:49 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03 16:26 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-03 11:10 ` Benoit SIGOURE
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