On 9/6/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> wrote:
> > > Many users get confused when `git push origin master:foo` works
> > > when foo already exists on the remote repository but are confused
> > > when foo doesn't exist as a branch and this form does not create
> > > the branch foo.
> >
> > Hmm, what _does_ it do in that case...?
>
> error: dst refspec experimental does not match any existing ref on the remote and does not start with refs/.

Hmm, I'm assuming people don't want to default to just creating a new
remote ref ('cause it might be too easy to muck up a remote archive
that way), but it seems like it would be nice to have a "prettier" way
to create a remote ref than explicitly giving the whole ref path on
the remote side.

Maybe I"m weird, but I tend to think of the refs/... syntax as being
for "only if you're doing something funny" cases.

I'm thinking of something like:

  ... create new local branch "zoink" ...
  git push --create origin zoink

-Miles

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