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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Pushing and Pulling

John Coffin
John Coffin
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Posted by John Coffin
John Coffin
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Git Push Default - Simple vs Matching

I'm seeing the following warning when pushing with Git:

warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value is changing in 
Git 2.0 from 'matching to 'simple'. To squelch this message and 
maintain the current behavior after the default changes, use:

   git config -- global push.default matching

To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:

  git config --global push.default simple

When push.default is set to 'matching', git will push local branches 
to the remote branches that already exist with the same name.

In Git 2.0, Git will default to the more conservative 'simple' behavior, 
which only pushes the current branch to the corresponding remote 
branch that 'git pull' uses to update the current branch.

See 'git help config' and search for 'push.default' for further information. 
(the 'simple' mode was introduced in Git 1.7.11. Use the similar mode 
'current' instead of 'simple' if you sometimes use older versions of Git)

My inclination is to change the default to 'simple' as this is what Git will use moving forward (and I don't have any old repositories, so it shouldn't be a problem). My concern is whether or not GitHub is 'simple push' ready.

Any thoughts?

1 Answer

Tommy Morgan
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Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Tommy Morgan
Tommy Morgan
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey John Coffin -

This is a setting for how Git behaves on your machine, and won't affect (or be affected by) remote repositories in any way. So you don't have to worry about how GitHub is configured - whatever setting you choose here will be how Git works for you locally. This is one of the many advantages of having a decentralized repository structure - you don't have to worry as much about making sure everybody's configuration matches up :)

Sorry this is a few days late but hopefully it helps you out.