Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2009, #06; Sat, 21)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>   $ git push --dry-run sf.net
>   warning: You did not specify any refspecs to push, and the current remote
>   warning: has not configured any push refspecs. The default action in this
>   warning: case is to push all matching refspecs, that is, all branches
>   warning: that exist both locally and remotely will be updated.  This may
>   warning: not necessarily be what you want to happen.
>   warning:
>   warning: You can specify what action you want to take in this case, and
>   warning: avoid seeing this message again, by configuring 'push.default' to:
>   warning:   'nothing'  : Do not push anythig
>   warning:   'matching' : Push all matching branches (default)
>   warning:   'tracking' : Push the current branch to whatever it is tracking
>   warning:   'current'  : Push the current branch
>   fatal: 'sf.net' does not appear to be a git repository
>   fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> The final, most important error messages are dwarfed out by the warning
> that talks about setting configuration on the remote that does not even
> exist.

Actually, I take it back.  It is still annoying, but the point of these
warning lines is to warn even for a one-off push you make to a place
without having any [remote "sf.net"] entry anywhere in the config.  In the
worst case, the above "sf.net" may even be just a full URL of the remote,
and we do want to trigger the warning.

So this is not even a usability bug.  Sorry for a thinko.