Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify push.default=simple in triangular workflows

From: "Ivan Baluta via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 06:58:13 +0000

From: ivanbaluta <[email-masked]>

The documentation for 'simple' push mode currently focuses on the
centralized workflow. However, the implementation in builtin/push.c
falls back to 'current' behavior when pushing to a remote different
from the upstream (a triangular workflow).

Clarify this in the manual to align the documentation with the
long-standing implementation and prevent user confusion.

Signed-off-by: ivanbaluta <[email-masked]>
---
    doc: clarify push.default=simple in triangular workflows

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2115%2Fivanbaluta%2Fdoc-push-simple-triangular-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2115/ivanbaluta/doc-push-simple-triangular-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2115

 Documentation/config/push.adoc | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config/push.adoc b/Documentation/config/push.adoc
index d9112b2260..979e40c3a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/push.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/push.adoc
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ If you are working on a centralized workflow (pushing to the same repository you
 pull from, which is typically `origin`), then you need to configure an upstream
 branch with the same name.
 +
+In a triangular workflow (pushing to a remote different from the upstream),
+`simple` behaves like `current`.
++
 This mode is the default since Git 2.0, and is the safest option suited for
 beginners.

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