Re: [PATCH] Include a git-push example for creating a remote branch

On 9/6/07, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

Miles Bader [off-list ref] wrote:

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Many users get confused when `git push origin master:foo` works
when foo already exists on the remote repository but are confused
when foo doesn't exist as a branch and this form does not create
the branch foo.

Hmm, what _does_ it do in that case...?

error: dst refspec experimental does not match any existing ref on the remote and does not start with refs/.

Hmm, I'm assuming people don't want to default to just creating a new
remote ref ('cause it might be too easy to muck up a remote archive
that way), but it seems like it would be nice to have a "prettier" way
to create a remote ref than explicitly giving the whole ref path on
the remote side.

Maybe I"m weird, but I tend to think of the refs/... syntax as being
for "only if you're doing something funny" cases.

I'm thinking of something like:

  ... create new local branch "zoink" ...
  git push --create origin zoink

-Miles

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