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Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:
> before I put up my comments on the patch, I wonder if git-push is the
> best place to add this feature, as git-push usually deals with
> "pushing" data to another repo.
>
> I think git-branch would be a better place to do this.

No.  I think push is absolutely the right place to do it.

I very often create local branches and only later decide that I'd also
like to push them to a remote -- but just as often, or more often, I
never do so.  It would be extremely annoying if I had to make that
decision at branch-time.

-Miles

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