Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Introduce publish tracking branch

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

As it has been discussed before, our support for triangular workflows is
lacking, and the following patch series aims to improve that situation.

I'm not a heavy user of triangular workflow, so I'm not in the best
position to comment (and I have no time for a real review, sorry).

On overall, I do like the change. I played a bit with it, and do not
understand what "git push" does:

  $ git status
  On branch master
  Your branch is ahead of 'origin/new' by 4 commits.
    (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

=> OK, it's using the publish branch to tell me whether I should push.

  $ git push -v
  Pushing to /tmp/git
  To /tmp/git
   = [up to date]      master -> master
  updating local tracking ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master'
  Everything up-to-date

=> Err, it still pushes to the upstream branch ... Wasn't that the point
of the change to push to publish? Did I do something wrong?


Your series lacks documentation of branch.<name>.* in
Documentation/config.txt.

It seems strange to me to name the config variables "branch.<name>.push"
and "branch.<name>.pushremote" and call the same thing "@{publish}"
elsewhere. We're already not consistant with @{upstream} corresponding
to branch.<name>.merge, but I do not consider it as a good reason to
introduce one more inconsistancy.

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Matthieu Moy
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