From: Matthieu Moy <git@matthieu-moy.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] push: change needlessly ambiguous example in error
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:36:18 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <850526490.3010891.1542177378884.JavaMail.zimbra@matthieu-moy.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqva50p9c6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Where 'topic' is a tracking branch of 'origin/master' (I use
> > push.default=upstream). I only recently discovered that I could push to
> > 'HEAD" to do the same thing. So one ulterior motive is to make that more
> > prominent.
[...]
> Do we consider the current behaviour useful? Is it documented
Yes, since 1750783 (Documentation: more git push examples, 2009-01-26).
It may be an accident that the doc says "to the same name on the
remote." since it predates the introduction of push.default, but it
does say so and it's the actual behavior.
> already and widely known?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14031970/git-push-current-branch-shortcut
458 votes for the answer suggesting it.
--
Matthieu Moy
https://matthieu-moy.fr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 6:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-13 20:39 [PATCH] push: change needlessly ambiguous example in error Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-13 21:37 ` Matthieu Moy
2018-11-13 21:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-14 4:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-14 6:36 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2018-11-14 8:16 ` Junio C Hamano
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