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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] push, send-pack: support pushing HEAD to real ref name
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:40:27 -0700
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Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:

> On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>>
>>> This teaches "push <remote> HEAD" to resolve HEAD on the local
>>> side to its real ref name, e.g. refs/heads/master, and then
>>> use the real ref name on the remote side to search a matching
>>> remote ref.
>>
>> This probably is a good idea.
>
> I'll add an even shorter shorthand: "git push HEAD" will push
> the current branch to its default remote.

Ugh, that looks way too magicky.  The first parameter to push if
one ever exists has _always_ been the remote, and the above
breaks it.

Please don't.