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From: Aghiles <aghilesk@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git push in --tracked branches.
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> "git push" will by default push matching refs. This has been the
> behavior since day one. See the description of push.default in "git help
> config" for other options (I think you want "tracking").

Thank you very much. The 'tracking' case is what I need. Could you
enlighten me why pushing all matching branches is a sensible default ?
It seems like an unusual thing to do.

  -- aghiles