Re: [PATCH 4/6] remote.c: introduce a way to have different remotes for fetch/push
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Date
- Mar 20, 2013, 18:30 UTC
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- <20130320183015.GK3655@google.com>
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- <1363783501-27981-5-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
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> Currently, do_push() in push.c calls remote_get(), which gets the > configured remote for fetching and pushing. Replace this call with a > call to pushremote_get() instead, a new function that will return the > remote configured specifically for pushing. This function tries to > work with the string pushremote_name, before falling back to the > codepath of remote_get(). This patch has no visible impact, but > serves to enable future patches to introduce configuration variables > to set this variable.
The above description does not make the impact of this change clear to me. Could you give a before-and-after example? How will this internal API change make my life easier as a developer?
Hope that helps, Jonathan