Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] push: add separate 'downstream' branch

Felipe Contreras wrote:

And is going to change soon.

Your point being?  How will this patch interact with push.default = matching?

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branch.<name>.push should probably be named
branch.<name>.downstreamref and be used only for informational
purposes (@{d} and git status)?

That makes absolutely no sense.

I said downstreamref, not downstreamrefspec.

[branch "master"]
          remote = origin
          merge = refs/heads/master
          pushremote = github
          push = refs/heads/fc/master

[branch "fc/old-remote/hg"]
          remote = .
          merge = refs/heads/master
          pushremote = github
          push = refs/heads/fc/remote/hg

Tell me how you express that without 'remote.branch.push'.

[remote "origin"]
    push = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/fc/master

[remote "."]
    push = refs/heads/fc/old-remote/hg:refs/heads/fc/remote/hg

Advantage being you can do:

[remote "origin"]
    push = refs/heads/*:refs/for/*

While you can't with branch.<name>.push.