Re: Separate default push/pull?

From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 11, 2010, 18:57 UTC
Message-ID: <a038bef51002111057l382ed55fy6b4042d1115a830c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2zl3fg26j.fsf@boostpro.com>

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:36 AM, David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:

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> If I am collaborating mostly with one other person, I typically want to
> pull from his publicly-readable repo and push to mine (on which I have
> write permission).  Is there any way to set things up so “git pull” and
> “git push” without additional arguments will do this by default?
>
> Thanks,
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Yes there is a way. I haven't used it myself but search this list and you'll find plenty of references.

(disclaimer: the following is what I think you can do based on some vague recollection and some man pages)

Taking a quick look at the git push --help you'll see the following snippet of configuration.

                   [remote "<name>"]
                           url = <url>
                           pushurl = <pushurl>
                           push = <refspec>
                           fetch = <refspec>

so I think if you just add the pushurl to your .git/config should do what you've asked

[remote "origin"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
        pushurl = git://git.example.com/yourrepo.git

For your own sanity I suggest doing this by adding your repository as a separate remote.

e.g.

  git remote add yourrepo git://git.example.com/yourrepo.git
  git push yourrepo master:refs/heads/master  # the first time
  git push yourrepo # subsequent times

There probably is a way to tell push to use something other than "origin" by default but I don't know/can't find it.