From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Minor annoyance with git push Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:07:18 -0500 Message-ID: <20080210130718.GA1005@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <46a038f90802072044u3329fd33w575c689cba2917ee@mail.gmail.com> <20080209030046.GA10470@coredump.intra.peff.net> <6B804F0D-9C3B-46F3-B922-7A5CBEF55522@zib.de> <7v7ihd7ee1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080210101756.GB26568@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20080210122321.GA31009@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , Steffen Prohaska , Martin Langhoff , Git Mailing List To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 10 14:07:57 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JOBuX-0002Rc-73 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:07:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756032AbYBJNHX (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:07:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756104AbYBJNHX (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:07:23 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:1343 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271AbYBJNHW (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:07:22 -0500 Received: (qmail 27775 invoked by uid 111); 10 Feb 2008 13:07:19 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:07:19 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:07:18 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:04:03PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > IOW, I am not necessarily proposing to change the default for > > old-timers, but rather to allow differing behavior for "git push" > > without remote depending on a config variable. So different behavior for > > different people. > > Hmm. So that means that if an old-timer comes to help to a new-comer, > the old-timer will be surprised? No, the old-timer will type what he means: "git push --matching origin" or "git push origin refspec". > You know I am a fan of consistency, so you know I cannot agree to your > suggestion. I suspected you would say that. I agree that consistency has value, but it can also get in the way when there really are two equally valid approaches, and both should be available. -Peff