On Thursday 10 February 2011, Ian Monroe wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 04:31, Johannes Sixt <j.s...@viscovery.net> wrote: > > Am 2/10/2011 10:40, schrieb Ben Cooksley: > >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.s...@viscovery.net> > >> wrote: > >>> git push origin KDE/4.6 > >> > >> This is wrong, as it would try to push the content of HEAD (the merge > >> of origin/KDE/4.6 into a checkout of origin/master) into KDE/4.6. > > > > Now you made me think about it. But, no, it is correct: > > > > git push remote branch > > > > is always a shorthand for > > > > git push remote branch:branch > > > > regardless of the push.default configuration setting. Therefore, the > > command I gave pushes the local KDE/4.6 branch to the remote KDE/4.6 > > branch, regardless what you have checked out. > > Which is why I think these shorthands are just really confusing and > urge folks to just be explicit in everything. Certainly it isn't > obvious that git push remote branch doesn't does the same thing > regardless of what branch you have checked out. But if you did git > push origin KDE/4.6:KDE/4.6 you know exactly what you are doing. > > But shorthand commands like `git pull --rebase` remain popular, and > everyone confused.
Amen to that. I don't think I've ever been so confused in my life :-( -- Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org
