Got it. Thanks! On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Eugene Sajine <euguess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have a question: >> >> Why I can't do >> >> $ git push my_tag >> >> It will fail because the remote is not specified, even if there is >> only one origin remote >> >> but can do >> >> $ git push --tags >> >> and it will push tags to origin... > > Because 'my_tag' is interpreted as the name or URL of the remote, not > as a branch name. You can do "git push origin" and it will guess the > branch name(s) to push, but because of that, the one-parameter push > can't *also* be used to guess the remote name. > > In contrast, --tags is a flag, so it's actually the zero-parameter > version of push, which assumes 'origin' and then guesses the branch > name (and --tags changes the guessed result). > > Hope that helps. > > Have fun, > > Avery > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html