Re: Problem with a push

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2007, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <200706121007.17044.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706111556160.14121@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tuesday 2007 June 12, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok, pushing out remote branches is a bit odd in the first place. As in
> "you probably shouldn't do that". The "remote" branches are really local
> to each repo, and updating them by pushing is really quite suspect.

I agree its odd, but is it really true that one (I) shouldn't be doing it?

Can I tell you what I'm doing, and check that it's not crazy...

I have my laptop and my desktop computer; I use both for development. I've set them so that they are symmetric...

laptop:.git/config
 [remote "desktop"]
   url = ssh://blah blah blah
   fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/desktop/*
   push = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/laptop/*

desktop:.git/config
 [remote "laptop"]
   url = ssh://blah blah blah
   fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/laptop/*
   push = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/desktop/*

This is very handy, as git-push on one does the same as git-fetch on the other. Have I made a glaring mistake by pushing to a remote ref?

Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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