Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] doc: push: explain default=simple correctly

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Mathias Kunter wrote:
> Am 31.05.21 um 19:31 schrieb Felipe Contreras:
> > Once those patches are merged, then I will probably send the one to
> > change the behavior.
> > 
> > I will include you in the Cc list when I do so.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> > In my experience you need to convince either Junio Hamano, or Jeff King
> > for any change in behavior to happen, and until they do comment on this
> > one it's fair to say it won't happen.
> 
> I assume they are on this mailing list?

Of course, and they are also on the Cc list of this mail.

> I'd say it should be quite an argument if the related StackOverflow 
> question dealing with this exact issue is one of the top-voted git 
> questions of all time. [1]

That seems to be a different issue. Related, but not quite the same.

That question is answered at the time the user tries to make a push:

  fatal: The current branch fix-1 has no upstream branch.
  To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

      git push --set-upstream origin fix-1

That's literally the top answer in SO.

> It seems that millions of developers (judging by the number of views of 
> that question) wonder what they need to do so that "git pull and git 
> push will work immediately" on a newly created local branch.

Yes, probably many people do wonder that, but not necessarily all of
them (at least of the ones that participatd in that SO question).

> If that would "just work" out of the box and with the default settings 
> of git, without having to read up the solution in StackOverflow first, 
> then it would certainly be an improvement for a huge number of people. 

I agree, but I have already tried to improve the interface in a number
of ways to no avail.

Inertia is a powerful force.

We'll see how this one goes.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras