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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Minor annoyance with git push
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:06:59 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Putting this "push = HEAD" by default when "git clone" and "git remote 
> add" creates the [remote "$remote"] section is probably possible, and at 
> that stage we may even be able to do the "if the other end is shared, 
> then set this up automagically", as the result of the magic can be 
> inspected in the resulting config file.

I think this is too magic, both of it.  Once people get used to "git push" 
being implicitly "git push origin HEAD", why should they not expect "git 
push <somewhere-else>" to push "HEAD" implicitly, too?

Ciao,
Dscho