From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git push usability improvements and default change Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:35:20 -0700 Message-ID: <7v7i2v4x2v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1236638151-6465-1-git-send-email-finnag@pvv.org> <7vfxhmdyvn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20090310100400.GC11448@pvv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Finn Arne Gangstad X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 11 21:37:38 2009 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 1LhVAk-0002Ap-NI for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:37:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750916AbZCKUfa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:35:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750921AbZCKUf3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:35:29 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:40313 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750860AbZCKUf3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:35:29 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B01A0BB9; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:35:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 146C5A0BB8; Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:35:21 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2666223C-0E7C-11DE-B960-CFA5EBB1AA3C-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Finn Arne Gangstad writes: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:07:08PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... >> * What's the point of having --current option, when you can already >> say HEAD, i.e. $ git push origin HEAD > > It does something very different. Maybe --tracking would be a better name. > --current does basically this: > ... > The goal here is to be able to: > > git checkout -b junios-next origin/next > git push --current <=> git push origin junios-next:next > > git push origin HEAD would do git push origin junios-next:junios-next, > which was not the intention. Ok, now that sort of makes sense, and is very different from people would expect from --current, which I think most people would associate with HEAD. "tracking" or "track back" would be a better name.