Re: [ITCH] Specify refspec without remote

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:28:59PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>> Is there a reason for the remote not being optional, or are we just
>> waiting for a patch?  The only problem I can foresee is very minor:
>> there is a ref with the same name as a remote; in this case, we'd have
>> to specify both the remote and the ref.
>
> I think the ambiguity is a little more complex than that, because we
> cannot enumerate the universe of all remotes. Keep in mind that we can
> take either a configured remote or a URL (or ssh host). So what does:
>
>   git push foo:bar
>
> mean? Is it pushing "refs/heads/foo" to "refs/heads/bar" on "origin"? Or
> is it using the default refspecs to push to the "bar" repo on the host
> "foo" over ssh?

Wait, why does git-push support pushing to a URL directly?  Shouldn't
the user be required to create a new remote out of the URL and push to
that?  What happens to upstream branches if we directly push to a URL?