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From: Daniel Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com>
To: Eric Raible <raible@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git push <branch-name>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 18:11:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010051811.49211.ComputerDruid@gmail.com> (raw)

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On Tuesday 05 October 2010 16:29:50 you wrote:
> A newbie colleague asked why: "git push <branch>" didn't work.
> 
> Although I know that "git push <repo> <branch>" is the correct
> syntax, I think that he has a point.  If branch.<branch>.remote
> is defined it seems unambiguous to me.
> 
> So I can't see any reason NOT to dwimify
> 
>     git push <branch>
Isn't that syntax reserved for remotes?
for example:

git push origin

I feel like it would be a bad idea to have these 2 types of invocations 
overlap in syntax like that.

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-05 22:11 Daniel Johnson [this message]
2010-10-05 22:28 ` git push <branch-name> Eric Raible
2010-10-06 13:41   ` Sebastian Harl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-05 20:29 Eric Raible
2010-10-05 22:35 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-06  0:52   ` Eric Raible
2010-10-07 10:50     ` Michael J Gruber
2010-10-07 17:41       ` Eric Raible
2010-10-08  6:17         ` Michael J Gruber

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