Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@xxxxxx> writes: > You can use a branch's shortname to push it. Push used to create > the branch on the remote side if it did not yet exist. If you > specified the wrong branch accidentally it was created. A safety > valve that pushes only existing branches may help to avoid > errors. I do not agree with this change. If you misspelled the branch name (by the way, it is not a "shortname", but what follows refs/heads/ is _the_ name of the branch) "frotz" as "frtoz", and if a branch with the misspelled name did _not_ exist locally, it would fail, with or without this change, which is a good thing. But if you named "nitfol" that exists locally when you meant to push "frotz" out, if "nitfol" remotely existed, we will push that anyway by mistake, even with this change. It will prevent the push only when "nitfol" did not happen to exist at the remote side. Earlier there was a discussion to introduce an optional configuration that makes "git push" without any parameter to push only the current branch out, in order to help people who work with shared remote central repository. That might be a better alternative to avoid pushing out wrong branch by mistake. That approach would also make your 8/8 unnecessary. - 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
