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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> I was only working on making "HEAD" expand to HEAD:<current branch>. I 
> think that the matching type is only most likely what you want, not 
> certainly enough to just do it. I'd say that push should suggest it, but 
> not actually do it automatically, or possibly require -f to do it without 
> the full name.

Hmm.  `-f` means "I know there are the ones that do not fast forward but I
want them updated", which is quite a different thing.  I'd say either we
should just do it, or we don't, and keep `-f` orthogonal to the ref
dwimming.