Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > That is true, but does it justify giving a misleading information in > the advice message? Clearly, yes. Trying to be exhaustive here is not a good idea, we'd end up rewritting the man page, and then users won't read the message because it's too long. > Specifically: > >>> + "When push.default is set to 'matching', git will push all local branches\n" >>> + "to the remote branches with the same (matching) name. > > invites those who do not read documentation to mistake it with using > an explicit "refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*" refspec. Yes, but those who want to know the exact behavior should read the doc. That's life. >>> + "In Git 2.0 the new push.default of 'simple' will push only the current\n" >>> + "branch to the same remote branch used by git pull. A push will\n" >>> + "only succeed if the remote and local branches have the same name.\n" > > while you can see that it is not telling a lie if you read it twice, > "will only succeed if" feels somewhat roundabout. > > ... push only the current branch back to the branch of the > same name, but only if 'git pull' is set to pull from that > branch. Otherwise the push will fail. > > might be an improvement, but I dunno. I do not see much difference actually. I tend to prefer the original version: to me the expected behavior is to make push and pull essentially symetrical, and the fact that it fails if the branch is named differently is a safety feature comming on top of that. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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