From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Random thoughts on "upstream"
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 07:00:12 -0500
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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> You can't represent push.default = single either.
>
> Right.  And I propose that we extend the refspec to be able to
> represent it, instead of having "single" sticking out like a sore
> thumb (and possibly introducing more sore thumbs like this in the
> future).

Yeah, go ahead and have fun making refspecs Turing complete. Why?
Because you decided to call something a "sore thumb". Calling
something a "sore thumb" doesn't make it so.

We, the sane people, will people will keep using simple configuration
options. Hopefully some day there won't be much need for many of the
current configurations, including push.default.

-- 
Felipe Contreras