Re: Git Commit Notes (fetching/pushing)

Brooke Kuhlmann <brooke@alchemists.io> writes:

This will push your local branches (e.g. refs/heads/xyzzy) to their remote-tracking branches (e.g. refs/remotes/origin/xyzzy) of the same name. Is that what you meant? It is unclear what kind of use you have your remote repository for, and in some use cases, it is perfectly valid if a push from here is used as a substitute for a fetch from there to arrange the push from here like how you have above, to push into refs/remotes/origin/* of a remote repository with a working tree.

But often, a remote is used as a publishing point (i.e. everybody pulls from and only you push into it) or as a central meeting place (i.e. everybody pulls from and pushes into it), and in these cases, a push refspec would look more like

	push = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

This is especially true when the remote is a bare repository, or hosted at a hosting site you or nobody has access to its working tree.

Note the lack of leading '+'; that is absolutely essential if you are pushing into a central meeting place because you want to avoid force pushing that will clobber others' work, and it is also a great discipline even if you are pushing into your publishing point because those in your downstream will be disrupted if you rewind your history.