From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:25:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Per-remote tracking branch
Message-ID: <20090924112550.GA6540@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4or48bux.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On 2009.09.15 17:29:58 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way, with Git, to specify a tracking branch on a per-remote
> basis?
> 
> At the moment, I can configure a tracking branch to let me just type
> 
> $ git pull
> 
> when I want to say
> 
> $ git pull origin master
> 
> Now, assume I have another remote "foo", I'd like to be able to just
> say
> 
> $ git pull foo
> 
> and put something in my .git/config so that Git knows I mean
> 
> $ git pull foo master
> 
> Is there a simple way to do that?

Setup "foo" so that it fetches "master" only, i.e. have
remote.foo.fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/foo/master

You get that setup with: git remote add -t master foo git://...

Then there's only one possible choice for "git pull", and it will take
that.

Björn