Re: Not pushing all branches?

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>    - The first "-" one; even though it may be useful to be able to say
>      "the remote the current branch is associated with by default", using
>      "-" as a short-hand for that might be harmful to the long term UI
>      health, and further study was requested, which hasn't been responded
>      yet.

I've often wished for such a thing in some contexts, actually...
e.g., "git diff REMOTE_BRANCH" to see what updates are pending if I
merge...  Also, it would be nice to have a more concise way to say
"git merge REMOTE_BRANCH".

I'm not sure "-" seems like the best syntax though... maybe it's a bit
_too_ short.

[Is there a general standard syntax for "keywords" in git, e.g., to
distinguish them from branch/rev names?  I mean, if the standard syntax
were "@foo", then one could imagine "git diff @remote" or something.]

-miles

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