From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git push usability improvements and default change
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:35:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7i2v4x2v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20090310100400.GC11448@pvv.org
Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:07:08PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> ...
>> * What's the point of having --current option, when you can already
>> say HEAD, i.e. $ git push origin HEAD
>
> It does something very different. Maybe --tracking would be a better name.
> --current does basically this:
> ...
> The goal here is to be able to:
>
> git checkout -b junios-next origin/next
> git push --current <=> git push origin junios-next:next
>
> git push origin HEAD would do git push origin junios-next:junios-next,
> which was not the intention.
Ok, now that sort of makes sense, and is very different from people would
expect from --current, which I think most people would associate with
HEAD. "tracking" or "track back" would be a better name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 22:35 [RFC/PATCH] git push usability improvements and default change Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 22:35 ` [PATCH 1/7] remote: Make "-" an alias for the current remote Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 22:35 ` [PATCH 2/7] New config option push.default Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 22:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] git push: New options --matching and --current Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 23:49 ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-03-10 8:54 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 22:35 ` [PATCH 4/7] git push: Display warning on unconfigured default push Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-10 0:25 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-09 22:35 ` [PATCH 5/7] git push: Document that "nothing" is the future push default Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 22:35 ` [PATCH 6/7] git push: Change default for "git push" to nothing Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 22:35 ` [PATCH 7/7] git push: Remove warning for "git push" default change Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-09 23:35 ` [RFC/PATCH] git push usability improvements and " Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-10 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-10 8:46 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-10 11:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-10 11:12 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-10 0:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-10 0:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-10 10:04 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-10 16:20 ` Jay Soffian
2009-03-11 20:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-03-12 3:01 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-03-12 10:22 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-12 10:52 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-12 12:20 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-13 8:28 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-13 10:07 ` John Tapsell
2009-03-10 17:52 ` Jeff King
2009-03-10 22:04 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2009-03-10 22:10 ` Jeff King
2009-03-11 1:57 ` Jay Soffian
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