On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 21:20, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>> 6. Finally, you must push your changes back to the server.
>>>
>>> git push
>>>
>>> This will push changes in all branches you've updated, but only branches
>>> that also exist on the remote side will be pushed; thus, you can have
>>> local working branches that won't be pushed.
>>>
>>> ==> This is true, but I have found it saner to configure push.default =
>>> tracking, so that only the current branch is pushes. Some people might
>>> find that useful.
>>
>> Indeed. Why don't I do that more often...
>>
>> +1 on making that a general recommendation, and have people only not
>> do that if they really know what they're doing :-)
>
> Hmm, I didn't know about that option. What makes us think that's the
> behavior people will most often want? Because it doesn't seem like
> what I want, just for one example...
It'd be what I want for everything *except* when doing backpatching.
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