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Re: Proposal: branch.<name>.remotepush

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MSMichael Schubert <mschub@elegosoft.com>
Date
Feb 7, 2013, 17:45 UTC
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On 02/07/2013 05:14 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
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> This has been annoying me for a really long time, but I never really
> got around to scratching this particular itch.  I have a very common
> scenario where I fork a project on GitHub.  I have two configured
> remotes: origin which points to "git://upstream" and mine which points
> to "ssh://mine".  By default, I always want to pull `master` from
> origin and push to mine.  Unfortunately, there's only a
> branch.<name>.remote which specifies which remote to use for both
> pulling and pushing.  There's also a remote.<name>.pushurl, but I get
> the feeling that this exists for an entirely different reason: when I
> have a server with a highly-available read-only mirror of the
> repository at git://anongit.*, and a less-available committer-only
> mirror at ssh://*.
> 
> How about a branch.<name>.remotepush that specifies a special remote
> for pushing, falling back to branch.<name>.remote?

Additionally, it would be nice to have branch.<name>.push or similar to configure a default destination branch for push. Gerrit users usually want to track refs/heads/master but push to refs/for/master for example.

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  1. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 7, 2013
  2. Michael SchubertFeb 7, 2013
  3. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 7, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 7, 2013
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 7, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederFeb 7, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2013
  8. Jonathan NiederFeb 8, 2013
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  10. Michael J GruberFeb 8, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
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  13. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 8, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  15. Jonathan NiederFeb 8, 2013
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 8, 2013
  17. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  18. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 9, 2013
  19. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2013
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  21. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2013
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  23. Jeff KingFeb 8, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2013
  25. Ramkumar RamachandraFeb 8, 2013

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