On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:52:51PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > > git push --remote=host:some/path > > > > if we are willing to break the existing syntax. Though your proposal > > does have the benefit of breaking only one particular syntax which is > > (I'm guessing) less frequently used. But we'd still need the usual > > deprecation period, I think. > > Why? 'git push host:some/path' should treat host:some/path as a > destination and not a refspec. If the user meant refspec, she should > do 'git push -- host:some/path' instead. You snipped the part of Jonathan's message I quoted; I was responding specifically to making "git push host:some/path" an error. I do not think that is a good idea, and doing so would require a deprecation period. -Peff -- 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