Re: git push default behaviour?

Jeremy Morton [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Carlos Martín Nieto [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:13 +0000, Jeremy Morton wrote:

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Right, so I guess I'm saying that the default value for push.default
should be upstream instead of matching...

Any default is going to leave some people unhappy. If upstream is the
right thing for you, then that's what you should use. Most questions I
see about push not doing what the users expect would actually benefit
from 'current'. 'matching' is a fairly safe default, as it won't try to
push private branches or changes in private branches that track
something upstream.

But 'push --force' WILL try to push your (probably outdated) master
upstream, killing any changes there made since you last updated.  That
alone is so dangerous it seems like reason enough to avoid it by
default.

You can always configure server to refuse forced pushes.
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Jakub Narebski