Re: [PATCH 0/4] Support triangular workflows

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:46:11PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

I've put off implementing remote.default corresponding to
remote.pushdefault, as Jeff suggested in [1], because it's currently
not an itch; apart from the obvious symmetry, I don't know what
purpose it serves: why would anyone want to fetch from a remote other
than origin by default?  Why wouldn't they simply swap that remote's
name with "origin"?  However, it's a nice thing to have for symmetry,
and it should be trivial to implement: any interested person is
welcome to pick it up.

Yeah, I agree that it does not have much point, aside from people who
have an unreasonable aversion to using the word "origin". There was a
series posted last summer to add remote.default:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201065

It ended up stalled and never got merged. I think the main impetus was
that "git clone -o foo" should leave "foo" in remote.default (of course,
that still leaves unanswered why anyone would really want to use "-o
foo" in the first place).

I think the symmetry makes some sense, but I also think it can come
later if somebody wants it.

 Documentation/config.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++---
 builtin/push.c           |  2 +-
 remote.c                 | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 remote.h                 |  1 +
 4 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

No new tests?

-Peff