Re: git push (mis ?)behavior

[Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>]

On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>
> So what's the desired semantics?
>
> The current semantics is:
>
>    "git push" says "you do not say to which repository?" and
>    consults "branch.<current>.remote" but defaults to 'origin'
>    if unconfigured.
>
>    "git push <name>" (or using the <name> determined as above)
>    says "you do not say which branches?" and consults
>    "remote.<name>.push" to find branches to push out, but
>    defaults to 'matching branches' if unconfigured.
>
> What you would want to change is the fallback behaviour for
> unconfigured "remote.<name>.push".  I think it is sensible to
> have an option to make it push only the current branch.

I'm not sure that changing the fallback behaviour for unconfigured
"remote.<name>.push" is sufficient.

When "remote.<name>.push" is set I'd expect "git push" to
choose only the 'right' remote.<name>.push lines, that is
the lines that have the current branch as the local ref.
"git push" would only push the current branch, which could be pushed
to 0 or more branches on the remote side. If no "remote.<name>.push"
contains the current branch as a local ref nothing would happen
(maybe a warning?). If several "remote.<name>.push" have the current
branch as the local ref the branch would be pushed to several
remote branches. But other branches than the current branch
would _never_ be pushed if no argument is given to 'git push'.

	Steffen