Re: Things that surprise naive users

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On 4/19/07, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> 2. There's no easy way to tell that you've made commits that you haven't
>    pushed upstream. In fact, it's impossible to tell when disconnected
>    whether you've pushed everything. This needs some command to report it,
>    and also for push to update the fetch sides of remote heads it updates.

Cogito does this (push updating the refs), and I like it. I think it's
worth doing. Then git-branch -v could flag pending-to-push local
branches.

> 3. You can't create a new repository by pushing, even if you could
>    actually create the repository. Obviously, this will be blocked by
>    policy more often than pushing in general would be, but it's not
>    always blocked. It's also harder than it should be to turn a repository
>    created locally into a repository identical in configuration to a clone
>    of a newly-created remote repository.

It's not too hard to do a

      git-publish git+ssh://host/path/to/repo.git

that just does a git init or maybe rsyncs out.

> 4. Creating new branches off of existing branches/remotes doesn't
>    configure the new branches in the obvious way (i.e., such that the
>    default update action matches the create action).

Junio was pointing out recently that there's an option for that -
pull.automerge I think - that you can set in your /etc/gitconfig. Or
you can say --track

cheers,



martin