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From: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
Subject: Re: Some updates to refspec documentation
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:41:13 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <1225311945-17100-1-git-send-email-mail@cup.kalibalik.dk> (Anders Melchiorsen's message of "Wed\, 29 Oct 2008 21\:25\:38 +0100")
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During my struggle, I also found a git push usability problem. The
refspec ":dst" will delete the remote branch without warning.

While this is indeed documented, you cannot blame somebody for
thinking that a left out <src> will default to HEAD, as it does for so
many other commands.

In a CVS-like setup, with everybody pushing to master, this could
cause havoc.

As the "git push <repository> :<dst>" operation is destructive, I
think it should be protected by the -f option.

For the record, I did realize this before trying to push ":master" :-).



Anders.