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Re: defined behaviour for multiple urls for a remote

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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 14, 2011, 14:01 UTC
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Kirill Likhodedov <Kirill.Likhodedov@jetbrains.com> wrote:

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> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What's the defined behaviour if I do this:
>>
>> [remote "both"]
>>       url = https://code.google.com/p/gitolite/
>>         url = git <at> github.com:sitaramc/gitolite.git
>>
>> I know what I'm seeing (a fetch only goes to the first URL, and does a
>> HEAD->FETCH_HEAD because I didn't provide a refspec line, while a push
>> seems to push all to both), but I was curious what the official
>> position is, because I couldn't find it in the docs.
>
> Please see the message from Linus about that: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=116231242118202&w=2
cool; thanks!
> You also may check how Git understands your remotes by running
>  git remote -v
Aah that's very clear!
> It will show, where it is going to fetch from and push to.
>
> I agree though, that documentation should be updated.
well if it never came up once in the 5 years since Linus wrote that email... :-)
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