[PATCH v2 0/3] push: allow pushing new branches with --force-with-lease

[John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:
> 
> > If there is no upstream information for a branch, it is likely that it
> > is newly created and can safely be pushed under the normal fast-forward
> > rules.  Relax the --force-with-lease check so that we do not reject
> > these branches immediately but rather attempt to push them as new
> > branches, using the null SHA-1 as the expected value.
> >
> > In fact, it is already possible to push new branches using the explicit
> > --force-with-lease=<branch>:<expect> syntax, so all we do here is make
> > this behaviour the default if no explicit "expect" value is specified.
> 
> I like the loss of an extra field from "struct ref".
> 
> I suspect that the if/else cascade in the loop in apply_cas() can
> also be taught that ':' followed by an empty string asks to check
> that the target ref does not exist, in order to make it a bit more
> useful for folks who do not rely on the "use the last observed
> status of the tracking branch".
> 
> That would make the "explicit" test much less cumbersome to read.

Yes, that's nicer and it mirrors the syntax for deleting a remote
branch.

I've pulled it out as a preparatory step because I like the fact that
the "explicit" test passes even before the patch that is the main point
of the series.

> > +test_expect_success 'new branch covered by force-with-lease (explicit)' '
> > +   setup_srcdst_basic &&
> > +   (
> > +           cd dst &&
> > +           git branch branch master &&
> > +           git push --force-with-lease=branch:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 origin branch
> > +   ) &&

John Keeping (3):
  Documentation/git-push: fix placeholder formatting
  push: add shorthand for --force-with-lease branch creation
  push: allow pushing new branches with --force-with-lease

 Documentation/git-push.txt |  5 +++--
 remote.c                   |  9 +++++----
 remote.h                   |  1 -
 t/t5533-push-cas.sh        | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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