Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> host:foo/bar (take my "host" branch, push it to their "foo/bar" >> branch) could be tricky, no? It could be trying to go over the ssh >> to "host" and access repository at $HOME/foo/bar. The git_connect() >> call may even succeed and you cannot use the failure as a hint to >> disambiguate. >> >> Also the request may genuinely be to access foo/bar repository at >> the host, but the network layer had trouble connecting temporarily >> to the host. After disambiguating incorrectly to push to the >> origin, mapping our host branch to their foo/bar branch, that push >> might even succeed. > > Oh, ouch. I didn't think of that. What do you suggest we do? Go > with Duy's simple '-' solution, or try some heuristics that may lead > to confusing behavior in edge cases? What is bad about saying "push origin ...the rest..."? It is beyond me why people would want to invent unintuitive line noise like '-' that others need to read the manual from cover to cover to find and memorize for something small like this. -- 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