>From Jeff King, Sat 28 Mar 2020 at 09:15:53 (-0400) : > The tests makes sense to me, though I found a few nits to pick: [...] So I updated the tests as follow. I put them in another test, as you suggested, this is indeed much clearer. test_expect_success ':push:remoteref' ' git init remote-tests && ( cd remote-tests && test_commit initial && git remote add from fifth.coffee:blub && git config branch.master.remote from && actual="$(git -c push.default=simple for-each-ref \ --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref)" \ refs/heads/master)" && test from, = "$actual" && git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master && actual="$(git -c push.default=simple for-each-ref \ --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref)" \ refs/heads/master)" && test from,refs/heads/master = "$actual" && git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/other && actual="$(git -c push.default=simple for-each-ref \ --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref)" \ refs/heads/master)" && test from, = "$actual" && actual="$(git -c push.default=upstream for-each-ref \ --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref)" \ refs/heads/master)" && test from,refs/heads/other = "$actual" && actual="$(git -c push.default=current for-each-ref \ --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref)" \ refs/heads/master)" && test from,refs/heads/master = "$actual" && actual="$(git -c push.default=matching for-each-ref \ --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref)" \ refs/heads/master)" && test from,refs/heads/master = "$actual" && actual="$(git -c push.default=nothing for-each-ref \ --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref)" \ refs/heads/master)" && test from, = "$actual" ) ' And the test works with my patch. So I decided for completude to also test with git config branch.master.pushRemote to to test with a triangular workflow, and I found several (already existing) bugs. Heres what happen with such a triangular workflow when we do a `git push`: - with push.default=simple, we have case PUSH_DEFAULT_SIMPLE: if (triangular) setup_push_current(remote, branch); else setup_push_upstream(remote, branch, triangular, 1); break; so the current branch is always pushed. - with push.default=upstream, we have case PUSH_DEFAULT_UPSTREAM: setup_push_upstream(remote, branch, triangular, 0); break; which then gives if (triangular) die(_("You are pushing to remote '%s', which is not the upstream of\n" "your current branch '%s', without telling me what to push\n" "to update which remote branch."), By the way this matches what the documentation says. However here is the result of git -c push.default=$value for-each-ref --format="%(push:remotename),%(push:remoteref),%(push)" refs/heads/master for $value= - simple: to,, - upstream: to,refs/heads/other,refs/remotes/from/other Note that without my patch the %(push:remoteref) values would always be empty, but my patch does not touch %(push). So in both branch_get_push_1 and branch_get_push_remoteref I should first detect if we have a triangular workflow, and update the logic of the code accordingly.