Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:43:03PM -0400, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>
>> I suggest git would be better off changing the way it finds the default
>> remote to:
>>
>> Use the currently checked-out branch's remote;
>> or Use the remote specified in the original clone command[*];
>> or use "origin".
>>
>> [*] With some strong mechanism for identifying this remote.
>
> Yes, that sounds like a much saner path. I think your [*] is just
> "record the different name in remote.default during the clone".
>
> Then we continue to use "origin" when that is not set (so existing repos
> without "-o" see no change at all). New repos cloned with "-o" would be
> fixed. Old repos cloned with "-o" are still broken, but there is at
> least a simple one-time workaround ("git config remote.default foo").
Yeah, I can certainly buy that.
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