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Re: man page for "git remote set-url" seems confusing/contradictory

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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2018, 01:01 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Things won't work so well if you set the push url and fetch url to
>> different repositories. Git assumes that refs updated by "push" will
>> also be reflected via "fetch".
>>
>> I don't know offhand what will break, but likely something will. For
>> one, when you fetch again it will rewind your remotes after the push.
>
> Exactly.  I still haven't fully embraced it myself, but for a long
> time, "git push" pretends as if it fetched from that remote and
> updates the corresponding remote tracking branches (if you have
> any), so you'll be inviting inconsistent behaviour if you set your
> fetch and push URLs pointing at two logically separate places.
>
> This is a tangent, but there probably should be a boolean that
> disables this feature in "git push" per destination repository,
> i.e. "when pushing into this repository, pretend that we immediately
> fetched from the refs we just pushed to and update the remote
> tracking branches we have for them: yes/no".  It is not entirely
> implausible to envision an overly smart remote repository that turns
> a non-fast-forward push into an automatic rebase when it is safe to
> do so, instead of failing such a push, and you'd disable the "assume
> what we pushed would appear there" when talking to such a remote.
>

Not to mention something like gerrit which uses magical references "refs/publish/branchname" which don't actually get generated on the server.

Thanks, Jake

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Message 6 of 12 in “man page for "git remote set-url" seems confusing/contradictory”
  1. Robert P. J. DayApr 16, 2018
  2. Andreas SchwabApr 16, 2018
  3. Robert P. J. DayApr 16, 2018
  4. Jacob KellerApr 16, 2018
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2018
  6. Jacob KellerApr 17, 2018
  7. Robert P. J. DayApr 17, 2018
  8. Jacob KellerApr 17, 2018
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 18, 2018
  10. Todd ZullingerApr 18, 2018
  11. Martin ÅgrenApr 19, 2018
  12. doc/clone: update caption for GIT URLS cross-referenceTodd Zullinger, Apr 19, 2018

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