Re: How to jump between two repositories ...

From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2007, 06:57 UTC
Message-ID: <FE46507A-74FE-4EDE-AC28-96658B944182@midwinter.com>
In-Reply-To: <33CB0252-20C7-4AF2-AEB3-2EAC20ED830B@gmail.com>

On Dec 4, 2007, at 10:44 PM, g2 wrote:

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> What I am gathering from this is that I can use git in two ways: 1)  
> as "just another svn" bare git repository, or 2) only pull and don't  
> push, because push causes confusion. I'd be happy to only ever use  
> pull, but I have one machine behind a firewall and can't pull. I can  
> push to a bare git repository like the svn model, but then I would  
> just use svn. What's the value of "push" then?

You can push. Just don't push to a checked-out branch. I do exactly what you're describing and it works fine. It looks something like this:

server% git checkout mybranch server% edit somefile.c server% git commit

laptop% git checkout mybranch
laptop% git pull
   (with a pull configuration that pulls server's mybranch into  
laptop's)
laptop% edit somefile.c
laptop% git commit
laptop% git push server mybranch:laptop/mybranch

server% git checkout mybranch server% git rebase laptop/mybranch

Presto, ready to go. The trick is to push into a branch that's different from the one that's checked out, then rebase on top of that on the remote side after the push.

Yeah, it'd be nicer if you could just push to the checked-out branch directly (and there are hooks to let you do that) but this is only slightly awkward and it's easy once you've done it a few times.

-Steve