On 2007-10-03 12:25:22 +0200, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> In any case I think more people need to speak up on the topic so
> that we can find out what most people really think about changing
> the default.
My vote is for changing it.
Both "push the current branch" and "push all branches" have their
uses, and both can be specified explicitly, so no problem there. The
problem arises when a user expects one default but get another. There
are two cases:
1. "push the current branch" is the default, but the user intended
to push all branches. She ends up pushing only a subset of what
she wanted, which is easily fixed once she notices what's
happened.
2. "push all branches" is the default, but the user intended to push
only the current branch. She ends up pushing a superset of what
she wanted, which is not easily fixed if she can't be sure that
no one else has pulled from the public repo before she notices
what's happened.
So it all comes down to case (2) mistakes being much harder to fix
than case (1) mistakes. Therefore, we should change the default, since
doing so makes it safer.
--
Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.treskal.com/kalle
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