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Re: Not pushing all branches?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 13, 2009, 16:49 UTC
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<20090313164941.GA16504@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<alpine.DEB.2.00.0903130846410.17450@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:48:55AM +0100, Peter Krefting wrote:
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> Doing "git push remote" pushes all my local branches by default. Is there 
> a way to set it to *not* do that, and (for this particular remote 
> repository) just push the current branch? Or failing that, not allow me to 
> run "git push" without specifying a branch?
>
> The git-config manual page leads me to believe that I should recofigure  
> "remote.<name>.push", but it points me to the "refspec" spec on git-push,  
> which is a tad cryptic.

There seem to be a lot of responses in this thread, but nobody has suggested:

  git config remote.$remote.push HEAD

It isn't mentioned in the git-push manpage; maybe a documentation patch to give an example using HEAD would make sense?

-Peff
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Message 16 of 27 in “Not pushing all branches?”
  1. Peter KreftingMar 13, 2009
  2. Imran M YousufMar 13, 2009
  3. Peter KreftingMar 13, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009
  5. Finn Arne GangstadMar 13, 2009
  6. John TapsellMar 13, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009
  8. John TapsellMar 13, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009
  10. John TapsellMar 13, 2009
  11. Michael J GruberMar 13, 2009
  12. Johannes SchindelinMar 13, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 13, 2009
  14. Miles BaderMar 14, 2009
  15. Jeff KingMar 17, 2009
  16. Jeff KingMar 13, 2009
  17. git-push.txt: describe how to default to pushing only current branchChris Johnsen, Mar 14, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2009
  19. Jeff KingMar 14, 2009
  20. Jeff KingMar 14, 2009
  21. Chris JohnsenMar 15, 2009
  22. Chris JohnsenMar 15, 2009
  23. Jeff KingMar 17, 2009
  24. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2009
  25. Jeff KingMar 14, 2009
  26. Junio C HamanoMar 16, 2009
  27. git-push.txt: describe how to default to pushing only current branchChris Johnsen, Mar 15, 2009

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