From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:36:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Local branch to remote branch translation
Message-ID: <9e4733910711111136s20616468sd70b4bb19e7f3d0c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <A1B9CE91-15E0-4298-A606-68BB31541574@zib.de>

On 11/11/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > Is the remote config not correct?
>
> This is the configuration for remote "dreamhost". In your
> previous mail you also mentioned a remote "linus". But
> this seems to be unrelated to your question.
>
>
> > [remote "dreamhost"]
> >         url = ssh://jonsmirl1@git.digispeaker.com/~/mpc5200b.git
> >         fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/dreamhost/*
>
> correct. This fetches the branches from the remote and stores
> them locally as remote tracking branches "dreamhost/<branch>".
>
> >         push = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linus/*
>
> This "renames" your branches when you push. Your local branches
> get pushed to "dreamhost" and are stored there as remote branches
> "linus/<branch>". From your previous mail I assume you like to store
> them as normal branches. You'd need to say

I did this part incorrectly. I was trying to push my local definition
of the linus remote to the dreamhost repo so that when someone clones
dreamhost linus would be defined in their repo.

jonsmirl@terra:~/mpc5200b$ git remote show linus
* remote linus
  URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

How do I push the definition of the linus remote repo?


>
>         push = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
>
> But most likely you don't want to force here, that is drop '+'.
> And you don't need to explicitly say that you want to store a branch
> under the same name. So, probably you want
>
>         push = refs/heads/*
>
> But maybe you could even drop the push line completely. Then, only
> existing branches would be pushed and if you want to create a new
> remote branch on "dreamhost" you'd need to explicitly tell git with
>
>         git push dreamhost <new-branch>
>
> Does this help?
>
>         Steffen
>


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com