Hi, I consider myself a little bit experienced git newbie. I use git 1.7.5.4 I use git for 9 month in this way: 1. copy a released version from a centralized versioning control system (this VCS does not have any git interface) to my local git repo 2. do work in git in my-branch 3. copy current work-in-progress reconfiguration from VCS to git 4. rebase my-branch onto current work-in-progress 5. copy my work to VCS Therefore, no usage of push/pull. I created my first public repo in which I share the released versions of 4 development streams in 4 independent branches with my colleagues. My usual workflow is: 1. copy a released version from VCS to my local git repo 2. git add . 3. git commit 4. git tag <release-name> 5. git push <my-public-repo> HEAD 6. git push <release-name> I expected that push is meant (even after reading man git-push) to be used in this way: 1. do some work in my-branch 2. merge it to master 3. git push and this will push only the changes in the master branch I am currently switched on. Now, I realized that git push default is not "upstream" (the behaviour I expected) but is "matching" that brings more automation (I assume git community wants to achieve as much automation as possible). I agree with Sebastien that current git push.default is too much automation for newbies that "upstream" would be a better default for newbies. I came across an inconvenience in man git-push. There is no Configuration section that will inform about the push.default configuration parameter and educate the reading about various push behaviours. I know that there is man git-config but it's too long and it's too tedious to read all git configuration options. Maybe, adding the Configuration section to man git-push will help. Best regards, Pavel Pospisil On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Sebastien Douche <sdouche@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:38, Jeremy Morton <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I made many Git presentation and managed a lot of training[1] and the > >> first thing I explain on the configuration is : > >> > >> 1. set your name and email > >> 2. change the default push option[2] > > > > So, that would seem to be a rather strong indication that the default > > push option is a bad one. :-) > > True. Never understood why matching is the default value :). Btw, > thank you for the discussion, I forgot to do that :(. > > -- > Sebastien Douche <sdouche@xxxxxxxxx> > Twitter: @sdouche / G+: +sdouche > -- > 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 -- 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