Re: [RFC/PATCH] remote: add new sync command

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 07:31:09PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> >  1. git push --prune <remote> :
>> >
>> >     I.e., use the "matching" refspec to not push new things, but turn
>> >     on pruning.
>>
>> I guess so, but ":" seems a bit obscure.
>
> Yeah, it is. It's also the default, so you could just do:
>
>  git push --prune <remote>

That would work only if not configured otherwise; remote.<foo>.push,
push.default

> Although some people have argued for changing the default in future
> versions. I don't know what the status of that is.

IMO the default doesn't matter, it should be easy for everyone.

>> >  2. git push <remote> refs/heads/*
>> >
>> >     Turn off pruning, but use an explicit refspec, not just "matching",
>> >     which will push all local branches.
>>
>> Isn't refs/heads/* the same as --all? BTW. I think --all is confusing,
>> should be --branches, or something.
>
> Doesn't --all mean all refs, including tags and branches?

Nope, only branches, try it. I also found it strange. And what is
more, you can't use --all and --tags at the same time. Totally
strange.

Also, --all doesn't push other refs (say refs/foobar/test)

I think this area has been neglected.

> I thought that was the thing you were avoiding.

--all + --tags is not the same as --mirror (refs/foobar/* is pushed
only by --mirror).

And yes, in this particular use-case that's what I am trying to avoid,
but in other use-cases (like creating a new repo and pushing
*everything*), a *true* --all would be nice.

> We could add syntactic sugar to make
> --branches mean "refs/heads/*". But I do worry that pseudo-options like
> that just end up creating more confusion (I seem to recall there being a
> lot of confusion about "--tags", which is more or less the same thing).

But it's not, that could explain part of the confusion. I think these
would be totally intuitive.

 --branches
 --tags
 --other
 --all
 --update
 --prune

But what about 'git fetch'? You didn't comment anything. I think we
should try to be consistent in these imaginary future options, maybe
to devise a transition, or at least to identify good names for the new
options.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras