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Re: Local branch to remote branch translation

From
Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date
Nov 11, 2007, 20:59 UTC
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On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Jon Smirl wrote:
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> 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?

You can't. Remotes are local to a repository. They cannot be "pushed" nor will they be "cloned" or "fetched".

	Steffen
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